SolarWinds Papertrail is great for log aggregation and alerts.
December 21, 2022
SolarWinds Papertrail is great for log aggregation and alerts.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Papertrail
We use SolarWinds Papertrail for log aggregation and error alerting. Since different applications run on separate servers, it is valuable to have all logs go to one place. SolarWinds Papertrail's search capability works great and makes it very easy to find what you're looking for or seek to a section of the log by time. You can also use the search input to exclude keywords or categories, which is helpful when you want to quickly exclude certain types of log entries. You can also save a search query and use it to get alerted when anything new matches your query. Alerts can be sent in an email or hooked up to Slack or other channels.
- Log aggregation
- Searching and filtering log entries
- Alerts based a search query
- High level reports/stats (example: log entries per day)
- We are able to know about system/application problems instantly and usually handle them before our customers ever notice.
CloudWatch, by itself, is terrible at search. CloudWatch Insights works great and has powerful search capabilities, but it's more difficult to set up alerts. Also, because Insights charges per search, you have the potential to accumulate a large bill if you need to do many searches. I like that SolarWinds Papertrail has a known monthly cost.
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