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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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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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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https://papertrailapp.com/events
  • core-db-01.sjc sshd: Accepted publickey for samantha from 4.28.11.28 port 37884 ssh2
  • core-db-01.sjc sshd: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user samantha by (ui
  • www2 tomcat.log: 16:47:40,446 INFO [web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initiali
  • haproxy epa-http.txt: mac6100.home.edu.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp [30:00:52:22] "GET /docs/ci
  • www2 tomcat.log: 16:47:40,868 INFO [web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initial
  • farm-trivia-72 app/web.1: method=GET path=/a/product format=html controller=rails_ad
  • farm-trivia-72 app/web.1: User Load (1.2ms) SELECT "users".* FROM
  • dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=44ms status=200 bytes=6407
  • haproxy epa-http.txt: 202.96.29.111 [30:01:48:16] "GET /waisicons/text.xbm HTTP/1.0"
  • haproxy epa-http.txt: dd14-034.compuserve.com [30:01:48:22] "GET /Rules.html HTTP/1.
  • haproxy epa-http.txt: www-c8.proxy.aol.com [30:01:48:23] "GET /docs/Searchable.html
  • farm-trivia-72 app/web.1: method=GET path=/a/ format=html controller=rails_admin/mai
  • remote_ip=23.252.53.179 user_id=1 params={}
  • www1 tomcat.log: 17:32:59,713 INFO [web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 67
  • www2 tomcat.log: Aug 27, 2009 4:52:30 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol
  • www1 tomcat.log: 17:32:59,714 INFO [web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initiali
  • www1 tomcat.log: 17:33:59,965 INFO [web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 10
  • haproxy epa-http.txt: sfsp03.slip.net [30:00:46:11] "GET /docs/Access HTTP/1.0" 302
  • www1 tomcat.log: 17:33:59,965 INFO [web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initiali
  • www2 tomcat.log: INFO: Pausing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
  • www2 tomcat.log: Aug 27, 2009 4:52:31 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService st
  • haproxy epa-http.txt: sfsp03.slip.net [30:00:46:18] "GET /Access/ HTTP/1.0" 200 2376
  • farm-trivia-72 heroku/router: at=info method=GET path="/a/product?_pjax=%5Bdata-pjax
  • farm-trivia-72 app/web.1: Product Load (1.7ms) SELECT "products".* FROM "product
  • farm-trivia-72 app/web.1: User Load (1.2ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE
  • farm-trivia-72 app/web.1: (1.3ms) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "products"

Context

Papertrail’s viewer shows links to see any message in context. Click the sender (orange) or program (blue) to jump to that message within the related stream. Click the plus sign (+) for additional context choices or to transition to the command-line.

If you haven’t tried context links yet, here’s 3 situations where they’ve helped us:

  • Infrastructure-wide history. While viewing a HTTP request log for a user-facing error, clicking access_log shows all Web requests. Because other Web servers in the group are also searched and the query (like an IP address or user ID) is preserved, Papertrail returns the end-to-end history.
  • Single-system impact. After spotting a kernel problem in a Unix syslog message, clicking the sender will show events from only that system.
  • Long events, like when a search matches one line in a multi-line exception. Click the log sender to see it all.

If you’re used to grep, we’ve tried to adopt the best parts of its context and jettison those that we didn’t use.