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Elastic Beats vs. SolarWinds Papertrail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Beats
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Beats is a free and open platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. Beats includes technology from the former Packetbeat, acquired by Elastic in 2015.N/A
SolarWinds Papertrail
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Austin based SolarWinds acquired log management tool Papertrail in April, 2015.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Elastic Beats

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SolarWinds Papertrail
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Conrad Caplin
Head of Product
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
Papertrail is faster and easier to use. Simplicity and ease of use are really important to our team.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
I selected SolarWinds Papertrail because it was cheap and already provided precisely the integration surface required by the Heroku stack. It probably provided the least number of 'useful' features (out of the bunch) due to the nature of my logs and the post-mortem updates …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
We started with SolarWinds Papertrail and have never left.
Nick Vahalik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nick Vahalik
App Team Lead
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
NR logging just didn't seem to work all that well for us. We had issues with logs getting to them. SolarWinds Papertrail was much simpler to set up.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
SolarWinds Papertrail is easier to set up, and in my opinion, its UI is quicker for searching specific logs. LogDNA (now Mezmo) have advantage in the UI look and in the power to create charts and counters.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
CloudWatch, by itself, is terrible at search. CloudWatch Insights works great and has powerful search capabilities, but it's more difficult to set up alerts. Also, because Insights charges per search, you have the potential to accumulate a large bill if you need to do many …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
SolarWinds Papertrail is as easy and intuitive to use as Amazon CloudWatch is hard and intuitive.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
As a way to just read your logs in a stream, aggregated across apps, it does that better than Datadog or Honeycomb. While DataDog does have a logging product, Honeycomb does not, so Honeycomb + SolarWinds Papertrail could be useful.
Henrik Holst | TrustRadius Reviewer
Henrik Holst
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
Papertrail offers a much easier to use solution than Azure. We were able to integrate it into our applications without much work and the solution works robustly. Papertrail offers traditional logging services, only, but we have used sysdig monitor together with papertrail and …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
I much prefer SolarWinds Papertrail as it just makes things so much easier to read and follow through than other tools. It's much faster, and so much easier to set up and get into a running state. It takes us on average maybe 5-10 minutes to configure our apps to send log data.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
AWS user interface and user experience is not really great, its really hard to trace logs on their console. Papertrail offers so much better user experience for us, its also very easy to setup alarm on Papertrail whenever something's gone wrong. I personally choose Papertrail …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
We have used other services such as Coralogix before but love SolarWinds Papertrail for its ease of use and not-too-bloated features. This also makes our engineers and other staff use it more often.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SolarWinds Papertrail
We have used Papertrail right from day 1 of our startup. We didn't find any major drawbacks for us to check/evaluate anything else. Part of the reason is also that we started with Heroku and Papertrail was available as an add on for Heroku.
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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8.6
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.1
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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SolarWinds Papertrail is great if you have multiple separate applications and you want to be able to view and search all the logs in one place. It also works well for alerts based on certain keywords in log entries (for example, ERROR, WARN, etc.) Since only the first four weeks of logs are searchable in Papertrail, it may not work well for use-cases where much older log entries need to remain searchable.
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Anonymous
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Pros
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  • Collects logs from many sources in real time.
  • Makes it really easy to filter logs to dig into the logs of many services working simultaneously.
  • Alerts triggered on certain search matches.
Gabriel Montes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gabriel Montes
VP of Engineering
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Cons
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  • The CLI was a bit clunky and required some Linux-y thought to get right (obviously more designed with scripting in mind)
  • Tracking logs in real time (think something like `tail`) wasn't wildly intuitive
  • Accessing/searching archives required a lot of CLI-style pulling/extracting/reg-exing
Verified User
Anonymous
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are definitely going to continue using Papertrail. It's been a lifesaver.
Nick Vahalik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nick Vahalik
App Team Lead
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Usability
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It's extremely easy to use. I and new colleagues have never had any issues configuring this tool or setting it up, it works almost out of the box with very simple instructions to follow to configure it to our own environment. I would highly recommend it on that ability alone.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
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I honestly have never had the need to use the support team, as we have not run into any issues so far. If we did however, judging from how the tool itself works, I don't doubt that the team would provide excellent support for any issues that we may possibly run into.
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Alternatives Considered
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I selected SolarWinds Papertrail because it was cheap and already provided precisely the integration surface required by the Heroku stack. It probably provided the least number of 'useful' features (out of the bunch) due to the nature of my logs and the post-mortem updates that were required to make them usable.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
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  • We are alarmed properly so it makes it easy for us to monitor the server.
  • Very easy to debug our apps when something's gone wrong (bug) in the production server.
  • Noticed whenever any third party scan was going on our server.
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Anonymous
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