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.
There are millions of Android applications already available on the app store, with thousands more being launched every month. Unlike desktop programmers, however, Android app developers may face many challenges, such as slow internet speeds, small screens, and a keyboard. If an app doesn’t perform well, there is nothing to stop a user from uninstalling…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” What Mr. Franklin said in the 1700s rings true today for DevOps. At SolarWinds, we embrace change, especially when it’s for the betterment of our customers. It’s in our DNA.
If your company operates its own website or web application, your operations team is likely dreading the moment error rates spike, or, worse, for the site to go down completely. HTTP errors can be incredibly disruptive for your business because they prevent customers from making purchases or using your product. This immediately impacts revenue and…
It’s easy to recognize problems in Ruby on Rails, but finding each problem’s source can be a challenging task. A problem due to an unexpected event could result in hours of searching through log files and attempting to reproduce the issue. Poor logs will leave you searching, while a helpful log can assist you in…
When you’re troubleshooting a problem or tracking down a bug in Python, the first place to look for clues related to server issues is in the application log files. Python includes a robust logging module in the standard library, which provides a flexible framework for emitting log messages. This module is widely used by various…
Logging is one of those Node.js functions that’s easy to take for granted — until some unexpected event results in hours, sometimes days, of searching through log files to pinpoint the source of a problem.
Maintaining a Kubernetes cluster is an ongoing challenge. While it tries to make managing containerized applications easier, it introduces several layers of complexity and abstraction. A failure in any one of these layers could result in crashed applications, resource overutilization, and failed deployments.
We’ve recently rolled out several long-overdue improvements to the Papertrail™ dashboard. The old dashboard was adequate, but it didn’t do a great job of showing larger accounts with many groups, searches, or systems. Lack of personalization was another issue. For example, it assumed every user cared equally about every group in the account. The new…
When your infrastructure doesn’t offer the scalability to add hardware and applications without huge monetary investments, you can turn to cloud hosting. Microsoft Azure caters to businesses with mainly Windows environments and hosting can be difficult to monitor as you scale up resources. As you add more VMs and applications to your cloud, you may…
I remember the days when I’d develop using simple Linux command line tools. When I worked at Amazon almost 10 years ago I used a lot of old-school tools like Vim, ssh, and grep. It took some time to get familiar with them, but I figured them out just by reading a manual page or…