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.
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…
With the popularity of microservices, cloud integration, and containers, the distribution of log files can get out of hand. If you have several dozen applications distributed across the cloud, it gets difficult to aggregate and review logs when something goes wrong. When you distribute applications in this way, log aggregation is more important than ever…
When troubleshooting, a single search can become a theme with variations. Even if it’s not worth saving, it’s worth remembering, for a while. Until today, Papertrail didn’t make getting back to recent searches especially easy, but that’s changing.
We’ve been working on a few new features that will dramatically increase the speed at which logs are searched and enhance visibility into log volume. These features are immediately available to new customers and will be rolled out to existing customers in the coming weeks.
Papertrail now officially supports automated setup of the remote_syslog2 logging daemon with Chef, Puppet, and Salt: chef-papertrail puppet-papertrail salt-papertrail
Ever wanted to quickly see which systems haven’t sent logs recently? Now it’s as easy as checking a traffic light. Visit the Dashboard and click a group name, then scan the list of systems: