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.
We’re excited to release some subtle but powerful updates to Papertrail’s event viewer that make searching and sharing logs much easier: Searches now stay centered around the time you’re looking at, so step-by-step troubleshooting is faster. Event viewer URLs now link to exact positions, so colleagues always see exactly what you see.
On Thursday, April 14, 2016, Papertrail will deploy a new SHA-2 (SHA-256) TLS/SSL certificate for its syslog destinations, replacing the current SHA-1 certificate.
We’re pleased to release several improvements to Papertrail’s event viewer. Based on our own experience and how we’ve seen customers use Papertrail, these changes make the viewer easier for new users to incrementally explore, then more predictable once you have. One place to choose what to see Quickly update existing saved searches Offer control of…
Typing the same alert settings into multiple alerts sucks. Browser autocompletion makes it tolerable, but it’s not ideal. To help with this, now when you create a new alert, you can copy details from one of your existing alerts. This is a quick way to set up multiple alerts that share details.
Summary Occasionally, a misconfigured log sender will generate an astonishingly high volume of log data. Because UDP doesn’t offer backpressure, a misconfigured UDP sender can generate hundreds of thousands of packets per second with no regard to whether Papertrail accepts or even receives the logs. To any other service, this activity would be a denial-of-service…
Summary The TLS/SSL certificate used by 1 of Papertrail’s syslog destinations, logs.papertrailapp.com, will change on Wednesday, January 27, 2016. Some log senders which were configured before June, 2014 and are using TLS/SSL need to be modified to trust the new certificate.
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…