Scalyr Review

Scalyr is simple to set up on any server and offers a centralized system for managing data and logs from all servers. You can generate interactive reports and analyze complex log data. Data can be imported from other solutions such as Amazon CloudTrail, Amazon RDS, and Heroku. On top of that, the software hosts a customizable dashboard that allows you to include graphs and other visualizations as needed.

Scalyr triggers automatic alerts on unexpected and user defined events with the assistance of a built-in analysis tool that enables you to diagnose the issue. Plus, the app offers optional sensitive data redaction, full data redundancy, and end-to-end SSL encryption.

Easy setup

Start monitoring and collecting data without worrying about infrastructure.

Drop the Scalyr Agent on any server

Each agent installation automatically registers itself and begins collecting logs and system metrics. Add tags to self-organize servers by tier, data center, or custom categories.

Or bring your own data

Import logs from Amazon CloudTrail, Amazon RDS, and Heroku; metrics from Amazon CloudWatch or any Graphite-compatible tool, upload metrics and logs via fluentd, syslog, or Scalyr’s API, or define monitors to probe your servers directly.

Aggregate logs and server metrics

Centralized server monitoring and log management means you don’t need to run from server to server to find what’s wrong.

Collect everything

You get application logs, system logs, web access logs; Process, system, and custom server metrics; Server pings, external probes, and more – all in one place.

Lightning-fast search

Search hundreds of GBs/sec across all your servers. Most searches take less than a second.

Analyze + graph

Turn raw log and metric data into rich visualizations.

Find answers quickly with graphs

Graphs let you visualize your log data and metrics to show trends over time, distributions, rates, percentiles, breakdowns, and more.

Drill down to find the root cause

Click to segment data by server, user agent, URL, origin IP, or any other standard or custom log field. Search or filter on any field of any event.

Use reports to make sense of large amounts of data

Turn complex log data into clear, simple, and interactive reports.

Dashboards

Use the power of Scalyr’s import, display, and analysis tools to generate the graphs you need. Then drop them into a dashboard for quick and easy access. Scalyr precomputes all your dashboards on a continuous basis, so they load quickly.

Combine sources

Collect and graph data from multiple sources (custom events, system metrics, logs, etc.).

Fully customizable

Include the graphs you want. Define dashboards once and use them for all your servers.

Intelligent monitors and alerts

Robust customizable alert manager lets you know when something unexpected happens.

Set alerts for almost anything

Alert on anything that can be extracted from a log parser or timeseries, even on computed values.

Web monitors

Scalyr’s built-in monitors can immediately alert you if your site goes down, is slow, or if content changes.