SolarWinds Papertrail offers excellent logging visibility that will benefit the whole team
Updated December 23, 2022

SolarWinds Papertrail offers excellent logging visibility that will benefit the whole team

Nick Vahalik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Papertrail

We use SolarWinds Papertrail for logging across a cluster of servers. Before using SolarWinds Papertrail we didn't have any easy way to aggregate logs across all of our servers. We needed a way to watch what was going on both on individual servers in addition to having cluster-wide visibility. We also needed an easier way to handle monitoring of certain jobs and tasks, which, before, we had custom implementations to handle output logging.
  • Live view of log
  • Filtering and custom views
  • Historical information
  • Better json search support
  • Regex support
  • Message grouping
  • Improved visibility
  • Improved communication
  • Decreased time to review issues
NR logging just didn't seem to work all that well for us. We had issues with logs getting to them. SolarWinds Papertrail was much simpler to set up.

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

It works great for monitoring logs across a cluster of servers. We run a traditional LAMP stack and log jobs that are important to us. We now use SolarWinds Papertrail to handling monitoring of those processes as well as handle custom reporting for things we are actively engaged in debugging/improving in the main application. Since we use Laravel Forge, the installation was super simple, and we didn't have to do anything to make it work beyond the initial setup.

Using SolarWinds Papertrail

5 - Our users are mostly developers who want to deploy code quickly and be able to test and see how things are going across the entire deployed system. To this end, we favor adding logging for new components that allow us to quickly and easily find and examine the new processes. This makes debugging easier and reduces the amount of time we have to spend to let users know that things are actually working.
1 - It's just one person. Supporting Papertrail requires minimal effort.
  • debugging
  • visibility of deployed systems
  • real-time feedback
  • telemetry
  • monitoring dry-run processes in production
  • radical visibility across the cluster
We are definitely going to continue using Papertrail. It's been a lifesaver.