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Make Your Logs Work for You

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.

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FEATURED TECHNOLOGY

Kubenetes Cluster Logging Kubernetes Logging AWS Log Management GC Log Analyzer AWS Logging Docker Logging Docker Syslog Heroku Logging Logging Tools for Azure App

Troubleshoot Fast and Enjoy It

SolarWinds® Papertrail™ provides cloud-based log management that seamlessly aggregates logs from applications, servers, network devices, services, platforms, and much more.

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FEATURED CAPABILITIES

Log Viewer Firewall Log Analyzer Centralized Log Management Log Analysis Tail Logging Cron Job Monitoring Log Aggregator Cloud Logging

Aggregate and Search Any Log

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.

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FEATURED LANGUAGES

Linux Logging Software Linux Log Management Ruby Logging Manager Golang Logging HAproxy Log Analyzer MySQL Logging NGINX Logging Javascript Logging Tomcat Logging Apache Log Analyzer

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haproxy

Aggregate logs from haproxy, a "reliable, high Performance TCP/HTTP load balancer," including HTTP requests and errors. Direct logging haproxy supports remote syslog natively, so it can log directly to Papertrail. Edit haproxy.cfg and add a new global log configuration option like…

Advanced Unix logging tips

Occasionally Asked Questions. If you're just getting started and not already familiar with logging, start on Setup, not this document. Contents Common tasks Override the hostname sent by a logger Aggregate output from a command…

Encrypting with TLS (SSL)

Log messages can be delivered to Papertrail using TLS-encrypted syslog over TCP, as well as over UDP. Papertrail also supports TCP without TLS, though it isn't often used. This page describes how to configure rsyslog…

Windows Azure

Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud hosting service for apps in the Windows environment. Azure supports .NET, Node.js, and both Windows and Linux virtual machines. Setup Aggregating logs directly from app/framework Logs from apps on…

Perl

Papertrail can accept logs from any Perl script using either a local log file or the Sys::Syslog module. Send log file with remote_syslog2 Configure your script to log to a file as usual, then transmit…

Amazon Redshift

Papertrail log archives can be loaded into Amazon Redshift for ad-hoc relational queries against years of logs, such as: SELECT * FROM events WHERE message LIKE '%error%'; To use Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) or for a step-by-step walkthrough of…

Amazon ECS

Introduction This setup adapts Papertrail's Docker logspout instructions for Amazon ECS. Logspout is a lightweight log router for Docker. Setup Create a task definition Use the information below to create a new task definition in the Amazon ECS console with…