LogDNA vs Logentries

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LogDNA vs Logentries: What are the differences?

What is LogDNA? Easy beautiful logging in the cloud. The easiest log management system you will ever use! LogDNA is a cloud-based log management system that allows engineering and devops to aggregate all system and application logs into one efficient platform. Save, store, tail and search app.

What is Logentries? Real-time log management and analytics built for the cloud. Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

LogDNA and Logentries can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by LogDNA are:

  • Aggregate Logs & Analyze Related Events
  • Easy Setup in Minutes
  • Powerful Search & Alerts

On the other hand, Logentries provides the following key features:

  • Logs as Metrics - Extract field level values, analyze them using powerful search functions, and visualize them with detailed dashboards.
  • Dynamic Log Correlation - Dynamically group and correlate your logs in a single dashboard, or aggregate logs from a particular system to give an end-to-end view.
  • Live Tail - View your streaming logs in real-time and highlight important events to easily see errors or exceptions in your live data.

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 2 developers like LogDNA, while over 31 developers mention "Log search" as the leading cause for choosing Logentries.

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Pros of LogDNA
Pros of Logentries
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    Easy setup
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    Cheap
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    Extremely fast
  • 2
    Powerful filtering and alerting functionality
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    Graphing capabilities
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    Export data to S3
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    Multi-cloud
  • 34
    Log search
  • 27
    Live logs
  • 19
    Easy setup
  • 14
    Heroku Add-on
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    Backup to S3
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    Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
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    Free
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    Search/query with regex
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Cons of LogDNA
Cons of Logentries
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    Limited visualization capabilities
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    Cannot copy & paste text from visualization
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    What is LogDNA?

    The easiest log management system you will ever use! LogDNA is a cloud-based log management system that allows engineering and devops to aggregate all system and application logs into one efficient platform. Save, store, tail and search app

    What is Logentries?

    Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

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