The days of logging in to servers and manually viewing log files are over. SolarWinds® Papertrail™ aggregates logs from applications, devices, and platforms to a central location.
SolarWinds® Papertrail™ provides cloud-based log management that seamlessly aggregates logs from applications, servers, network devices, services, platforms, and much more.
SolarWinds® Papertrail™ provides lightning-fast search, live tail, flexible system groups, team-wide access, and integration with popular communications platforms like PagerDuty and Slack to help you quickly track down customer problems, debug app requests, or troubleshoot slow database queries.
Papertrail now has a way to stop processing logs from a sender. A sender can be muted for an hour during maintenance or to run a load test. This augments the filtering improvements released last week.
The set of interesting log messages changes depending on the context. Log messages which are useful while in the middle of an outage, or to debug a kernel error, can be noise during day-to-day operations. As of today, it’s easier to choose the messages which are currently useful to you. Flexible, Centralized Filters It’s common…
Some customers have thousands or even tens of thousands of log senders. Viewing the details of these large groups of senders can be quite slow. To speed up page loads, we’ve added pagination and changed how filtering log senders works. The syntax for filtering a group’s log senders now matches the syntax for adding dynamic…
It started with an email through Flickr way back in Papertrail’s co-founder, Eric Lindvall, saw a portfolio which caught his eye. Eric sent an unsolicited message to the designer, Ryan Heath, using the only method that Eric could find — Flickr. After a few interactions, Ryan began collaborating with the team, and a step that’s…
Summary On Friday, June 12, 2015, Papertrail will remove support for the outdated security protocol SSL 3.0, which was released in 1996 and has since been superseded by TLS. TLS is automatically used by nearly all modern loggers that can send encrypted log messages, so for the vast majority of customers this change will have…
On behalf of all of us at Papertrail, I’m thrilled to announce that Papertrail is now part of SolarWinds. Read more here. As I said in the announcement, joining the SolarWinds family gives us more resources to make Papertrail better and to do so faster. As a first example, SolarWinds helped Papertrail acquire the domain…
Search alerts are my favorite feature of Papertrail. Almost every organization considers at least one subset of logs worthy of human attention, whether as a daily summary or an instant notification. That’s precisely why alerts exist. We’ve released a number of improvements to how alerts are managed. Below are a few of our favorites.
Summary Most DNS requests for papertrailapp.com timed out for 6 hours, affecting many Web visitors and a small number of log senders. The outage was absolutely unacceptable. Personally and on behalf of Papertrail, I’m sorry. Although the outage was caused by a DDoS against our DNS service provider, it’s our problem. We’re implementing complete DNS…
Two small but meaningful tweaks make Papertrail’s Dashboard slightly more flexible. Hide alert-oriented searches Have lots of searches, some of which are mostly to generate alerts? It’s now possible to omit those searches from the Dashboard. To hide a search, scroll to it on the Dashboard. Click its edit icon and un-check “Show search on…
We’re pleased to announce a new daemon for transmitting log messagesfrom text log files to Papertrail: remote_syslog2. remote_syslog2 replaces its predecessor, remote_syslog, and provides 2 major improvements: