Loggly: we needed something fast and it worked well.
September 29, 2020
Loggly: we needed something fast and it worked well.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Loggly
Loggly was used by a particular department/product line. It was used only at the free tier and by a team with minimal operations experience. The setup and configuration were very simple and straight-forward. It enabled centralized log management for a team that otherwise wouldn't have had this in place. Ease of use and free tier were the primary factors in the decision to use this service.
- Ease of setup
- Intuitive UX
- Response times are fast
- The system seemed to lack the power (AI anomaly detection) of other offerings, but we were only on the free tier.
- No advanced features were evaluated.
- Able to address security and ops requirements quickly.
- Enabled team to do better troubleshooting.
I've used ELK, Sumo, Splunk, Cloudtrail/watch, Sentinel. You get what you pay for. If you have the time, expertise, and budget for a Splunk setup, you can't beat it. ELK is great for OSS shops but takes more hand-holding to scale and stabilize. Loggly, for us, was closer to the easy/cheap side of the spectrum, but as we didn't explore the paid options we can't really compare the power features.