PaperTrail is an effortless cloud-logging solution
March 22, 2018
PaperTrail is an effortless cloud-logging solution
Overall Satisfaction with PaperTrail
We use PaperTrail to provide cloud logging for several web apps and services, particularly those running on Heroku where PaperTrail is a convenient plugin. In development, PaperTrail helps us build and debug faster. In production, PaperTrail is a reliable tool for storing, managing, and viewing logs across all of our applications.
- Powerful and intuitive search syntax
- Instant, super-easy setup
- Free plan is very useful for development. Paid plans are very reasonably priced.
- Easily interface with PaperTrail through browser, CLI, or API
- PaperTrail could improve how they handle hitting plan limits
- Free plan is sufficient for development and small services, and the paid plans are very cheap at low log volume. For us, the price is right with PaperTrail - though I can't speak to how their pricing compares at very high volumes.
- Adding cloud-logging to your apps can really speed up development and debugging - the impact to engineering productivity cannot be understated.
- LogDNA
We initially selected PaperTrail because they have the best free plan - and now we are happy paid users across many apps. A usable free plan is key for anybody who launches several instances of apps (development, staging, production), micro-services, etc.