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.
If you’ve ever needed to log from systems or services which don’t support TLS encryption, check out the new log destination options available today. Every Papertrail log destination has always supported sending logs over TCP with TLS encryption or UDP without encryption. Some systems and services can’t use TLS encryption and can only send logs in…
We’re thrilled to officially welcome Leon Sodhi to Papertrail. Leon started in May, 2013 as Papertrail’s support engineer, so you may already have met him. Leon’s thoughtful disposition, attention to detail, and readiness to dive in and reproduce a problem have saved time for hundreds of customers. Whether he’s helping identify an rsyslog configuration problem, patching…
As of today, Papertrail offers new ways to control which emails should go to which team members, such as to only send account usage updates to an operations team lead and credit card receipts to an accounting role account. Team-wide controls are within Account. Your own preferences are duplicated on your Profile. Here’s how it…
Papertrail’s Dashboard finder now shows more specific matches first. Type any saved search, system, or group name. The most specific matches will reliably be the first results. What changed? Land on the Dashboard, press s (or click in the text box near the top of the page), and type the name of a group, saved search, or system.…
Papertrail now has a more obvious live “tail” status icon that’s easier to understand. When the viewer is loaded, the live tail status looks like this:
We’ve significantly improved Papertrail’s time and date seeking. Times and dates are more reliably recognized, times honor your Papertrail profile time zone, and more formats are supported.
Papertrail now provides an easy way to start searching logs right from your browser, without changing your search engine. Here’s Chrome waiting for a log search query:
We just made identifying high-volume senders easier. Now when you view information about a group, you’ll see a pie chart of currently-searchable log messages broken down by sender.
Fellow Seattleite Ethan Schoonover created a color scheme called Solarized, and as of today, Papertrail uses its palette when colorizing log messages. Solarized logs look like this:
Papertrail’s event viewer now honors ANSI color codes in log messages. Here’s an example: The light blue and purple colors were chosen by the application which generated these logs (Ruby on Rails) and are embedded in the log messages. The messages contain ANSI color codes. These escape characters can set the foreground color, background color, and…