Papertrail makes troubleshooting easier

Instant log visibility. The Papertrail™ time-saving log tools include fast lightning search, flexible system groups, team-wide access, long-term archives, charts and analytics exports, monitoring webhooks, and typically a 45-second setup.

Realize value from logs you already collect. Track down customer problems, error messages, app requests, slow DB queries, and config changes. Quickly visualize patterns and identify anomalies with log velocity analytics

FEATURES

• Troubleshoot fast Diagnosing a monitoring alert, app server error, customer service ticket, or missing email? Just search or tail messages, metadata, even substrings. Jump to a time, system, group of systems, or context. Save searches to reuse and even show to coworkers. With lightning search and velocity graphs, faster log searches and error visualization result in quicker diagnoses and shorter time to resolution.

• See related events together Create flexible log views in a few clicks. Turn related systems into event streams, like NY colo, Big App, or DB servers. Automatically put new systems in the right place using hostname wildcards. Save searches to create a “curated” log dashboard

• Spread visibility around  Help less-technical staff take advantage of logs (without SSH/RDP knowledge or access). A lead engineer can populate groups, searches, and alerts that the team can use. Stay current without logging in. Receive nightly summary emails and copy-friendly links. One syntax works for web, CLI, and API.

• Get back to work  Typically setup averages 45 seconds and works with autoscaling cloud systems, VPSes, NAT, dynamic IPs, and log hosts. Papertrail is fully supported and you can use any common syslog daemon or our collector for

• React and Analyze  Mix in other web services and your own apps. Have Papertrail notify your app via HTTP when a search has new matching logs. Your app can reside anywhere on the internet