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Scalyr vs Splunk: What are the differences?
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; Splunk: Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
Scalyr and Splunk belong to "Log Management" category of the tech stack.
According to the StackShare community, Splunk has a broader approval, being mentioned in 31 company stacks & 29 developers stacks; compared to Scalyr, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
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- Speed of queries7
- Blazing fast logs search4
- Simple usage1
Pros of Splunk
- Ability to style search results into reports2
- Alert system based on custom query results2
- API for searching logs, running reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing1
- Dashboarding on any log contents1
- Rich GUI for searching live logs1
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- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1
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What is Scalyr?
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.
What is Splunk?
It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
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What are some alternatives to Scalyr and Splunk?
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Wavefront
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ELK
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Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
Loggly
It is a SaaS solution to manage your log data. There is nothing to install and updates are automatically applied to your Loggly subdomain.