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.
I’m pleased to announce that Papertrail now supports a read-only account access level. Need to share short-term log visibility with a consultant? Want to spread ops visibility throughout your company, without the risk of someone accidentally changing a setting? This is for you.
Almost everything we touch at Papertrail has a timestamp, which means it also has an expressed or implied time zone. Here’s more about why and how we work with time zones, then an introduction to new time zone-aware search alerts.
We’ve added a new Papertrail search alert to create a Boundary event based on your application or system log messages. Boundary provides network-centric application visibility and they value real-time data as much as we do. They provide a way to create events, which show up as red indicators at the bottom of a graph. Events…
Our PagerDuty search alert was one of our first user-contributed alerts. @darron dropped by our chat room and pointed places where small improvements to the alert could give a lot more information when jumping on a problem. Over the past week, I talked with a few customers about how they were using PagerDuty alerts. They suggested…
Need to manage logs for multiple organizations, like for a consultancy’s customers or to keep work and personal logs separate? This is now easy. If you already have a Papertrail account and are granted access to another organization’s logs, you’ll see a new menu item in the Dashboard header. It shows the entities you have access to (Acme Anvils, Western Widgets,…
Update Monday, May 21: These changes are now active. Along with realtime search and tail, Papertrail generates daily or hourly log archive files. They downloadable from Papertrail’s site and optionally, uploaded to your own S3 bucket.
Update 1/5/11: Maintenance lasted from 10:02-11:39 PM Pacific on Wednesday 1/4. Thursday’s maintenance will not be necessary. We will be performing service-impacting maintenance on Papertrail’s Web site the evening of Wednesday, January 4 and potentially, the evening of Thursday, January 5, 2012, from 10 PM-2 AM Pacific (6 AM-10 AM UTC). We do not expect the…
Update: Rescheduled for Wednesday, December 7 and Thursday, December 8 at the times below. We will be performing service-impacting maintenance on Papertrail’s Web site the evenings of Wednesday, December 7 November 30 and Thursday, December 8 1, 2011, from 10 PM-1 AM Pacific (6 AM-9 AM UTC). During this time, the Web site and API endpoint may be unreachable. We do not expect…
We’ll be performing service-impacting maintenance on Papertrail’s Web site the evening of Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Pacific time. From Wednesday at 10 PM Pacific to Thursday at 1 AM (5 AM to 8 AM Thursday UTC), the Web site and API endpoint may be unreachable. We expect the impact to be far shorter than 3 hours…