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Papertrail vs CHAOSSEARCH: What are the differences?
Papertrail: Hosted log management for servers, apps, and cloud services. Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs; CHAOSSEARCH: A cloud-native search analytics platform on object storage. It is a cloud-native search analytics platform on object storage. It uniquely decouples storage from compute (zero local storage) and gives you an entirely new way to store, index, and execute your queries at any scale - from terabytes to petabytes and beyond!
We enable you to streamline and automate your data management process within your own S3 account — no data movement, transformation, or schema definition.
Papertrail and CHAOSSEARCH can be categorized as "Log Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Papertrail are:
- Intuitive Web-based log viewer
- Powerful command-line tools
- Long-term archive (S3)
On the other hand, CHAOSSEARCH provides the following key features:
- Amazon S3 and Elasticsearch API support
- Fully integrated Kibana visualization with enhancements
- Backed by Amazon S3 — never move your data
Pros of CHAOSSEARCH
- Schema on read1
- Great service1
- Centralized data1
- Reliability1
- Scalability1
- Kibana front end1
- Search s31
- Compressed index size1
- Lower cost then elasticsearch1
- Managed service1
Pros of Papertrail
- Log search85
- Easy log aggregation across multiple machines43
- Integrates with Heroku43
- Simple interface37
- Backup to S326
- Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup19
- Heroku add-on15
- Command line interface3
- Alerting1
- Good for Startups1
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Cons of CHAOSSEARCH
Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1