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Loggly vs Papertrail: What are the differences?
Developers describe Loggly as "Log Management, Simplified in the Cloud". The world's most popular cloud-based log management service delivers application intelligence. On the other hand, Papertrail is detailed as "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.
Loggly and Papertrail belong to "Log Management" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Loggly are:
- See what your application is doing during development
- Catch exceptions and track execution flow
- Graph and report on the number of errors generated
On the other hand, Papertrail provides the following key features:
- Intuitive Web-based log viewer
- Powerful command-line tools
- Long-term archive (S3)
"Centralized log management" is the primary reason why developers consider Loggly over the competitors, whereas "Log search" was stated as the key factor in picking Papertrail.
According to the StackShare community, Papertrail has a broader approval, being mentioned in 244 company stacks & 46 developers stacks; compared to Loggly, which is listed in 95 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.
Pros of Loggly
- Centralized log management37
- Easy to setup25
- Great filtering21
- Live logging16
- Json log support15
- Log Management10
- Alerting10
- Great Dashboards7
- Love the product7
- Heroku Add-on4
- Easy to setup and use2
- Easy setup2
- No alerts in free plan2
- Great UI2
- Good parsing2
- Powerful2
- Fast search2
- Backup to S32
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 Loggly
- Pricey after free plan3
Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1