Simple and easy to use software

What are the best aspects of this product?

Papertrail is simple yet powerful tool that allows you to send logs from 1 system or 1000 systems to the Papertrail and to search the logs or to trigger the alerts. Its search engine and functionality is easy to use and you can save searches or you can send the results to some external tools like Slack.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

The altering is good for searching specific patterns or number of events but it’s difficult to be used for trending.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

It helps us to centralize logs from all servers. It’s a known fact that in a cloud environment where the auto-scaling is utilize it is impossible for logging on a machine in order to view the logs. With this software we are able to centralize the logs and to give an access to those who need them. We are able to alert on specific log messages or the amount of log volume.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes