Item: SolarWinds Loggly
Rating: 4
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Loggly

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ease of setup
Intuitive UX
Response times are fast

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Able to address security and ops requirements quickly.
Enabled team to do better troubleshooting.

Alternatives Considered

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

For a small team looking to get up and running quickly, it's perfect. For more advanced teams with dedicated staff, I'd probably not recommend this solution and stick with the heavy hitters in this vertical.

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David Wagner
(Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
We're super glad to hear of the ease of use and value received from the use of the Loggly free tier. Speaking of a central point of reference for monitoring environments, we think folks would like to know that with non-free Loggly plans, you not only receive far more comprehensive and proactive monitoring analytics, you can also seamlessly integrate your log management with full-stack application and infrastructure performance monitoring (AppOptics) - with point-and-click workflow from application performance traces to related logs/events, and more. The SolarWinds cloud-native SaaS stack encompasses everything from log management, APM, Digital User experience (Pingdom), to databases (Database Performance Monitor), and more.

Loggly: we needed something fast and it worked well.