Great for the price, super useful for a wide variety of teams
December 20, 2022

Great for the price, super useful for a wide variety of teams

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Papertrail

SolarWinds Papertrail is a great logging platform, especially for Heroku or other PAAS. The UI is extremely simple - it shows logs like tail -f might - but you can get a lot out of it without a ton of setup. The search is very fast, and you can configure log alerts. This allows you to a) be alerted if something happens you aren't expecting, but more importantly, b) add logging to your app and have SolarWinds Papertrail alert you as a way to get basic observability. SolarWinds Papertrail is not a competitor to Datadog or Honeycomb, but is the perfect logging system for a small team, though it certainly scales up quite well. At a previous company, we were using SolarWinds Papertrail almost until we went public at a 1B valuation.
  • Logging
  • Log Alerting
  • Saved Log Searches
  • I can't think of anything to be honest
  • Lots of value an observability for low cost
As a way to just read your logs in a stream, aggregated across apps, it does that better than Datadog or Honeycomb. While Datadog does have a logging product, Honeycomb does not, so Honeycomb + SolarWinds Papertrail could be useful.

Do you think SolarWinds Papertrail delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Papertrail's feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Papertrail live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Papertrail go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Papertrail again?

Yes

Great for small to medium-sized teams, managing single or multiple apps, using a PAAS like Heroku. It is probably not the best for a massive team with a ton of different apps across lots of hosting solutions.