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Papertrail vs Scalyr: 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; Scalyr: Cloud-based log aggregation, server monitoring, and real-time analysis tool. Scalyr is log search and management so fast you actually use it. Custom dashboards, graphs, alerts and log parsers allow you to monitor what's important to you. We're proud to serve customers like Business Insider, Opendoor, and Grab.
Papertrail and Scalyr can be primarily classified 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, Scalyr provides the following key features:
- Remote log monitoring
- log aggregation
- real-time reporting
"Log search" is the primary reason why developers consider Papertrail over the competitors, whereas "Speed of queries" was stated as the key factor in picking Scalyr.
According to the StackShare community, Papertrail has a broader approval, being mentioned in 243 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to Scalyr, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
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
Pros of Scalyr
- Speed of queries7
- Blazing fast logs search4
- Simple usage1
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Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1
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