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Great for searching and alerting on your logs
December 20, 2022

Great for searching and alerting on your logs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Papertrail

I've used SolarWinds Papertrail for many years to monitor a variety of backend applications, such as data processing servers. The key features for me are the saved search and alerting capabilities. I create numerous saved searches that monitor the logs for various conditions (particularly error conditions) and generate alerts. Depending on the severity of the issue, the alert might come by email or text. I also use alerts to monitor for the absence of certain log messages that might indicate silent failures.
  • Fairly simple product yet surprisingly flexible
  • Numerous third-party alerting integrations
  • Scalable pricing
  • Some of the concepts can be confusingly similar, like Log Destinations vs Groups
  • Catch backend issues sooner and closer to the root source
SolarWinds Papertrail is as easy and intuitive to use as Amazon CloudWatch is hard and intuitive.

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

SolarWinds Papertrail is well-suited when you want to proactively monitor your logs and get alerts based on certain log messages or conditions. Using SolarWinds Papertrail is much better than having log files somewhere on a server that you're never going to look at until there's already a problem. In addition to alerts, sending all your logs from various systems to SolarWinds Papertrail allows you to use the SolarWinds Papertrail interface to centrally check what's going on with your servers. I like to keep a tab with SolarWinds Papertrail always open in my browser. I've learned many things about my servers just by having an easier way to check on them.