Snare vs. SolarWinds Papertrail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Snare
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Snare is an IT security analytics suite of applications from Prophecy International headquartered in Adelaide, providing a complete log monitoring and management solution, as well as network threat intelligence.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
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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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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9.1
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Support Rating
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9.1
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User Testimonials
SnareSolarWinds Papertrail
Likelihood to Recommend
Snare provides compliance products ranging from small footprint, highly effective device, and network logging and log management tools to ID advanced infrastructure threat protection solutions. It has many valued features like activity dashboard, real-time monitoring, data import/export, dashboard creation, and many more. They all help me to improve my working skills It has been a game-changer as it saves a lot of time and I can work freely with this, and whenever I have any doubt the customer support team communicates immediately.
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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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Pros
  • The tools were very easy to install and it integrates seamlessly with our secure system and prevents deployment.
  • Logging cooperates with our system perfectly.
  • Sending events to SIEM.
  • I have realised that the data collected is going to the centralised detection and prevent solution for analysis and monitoring.
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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.
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Cons
  • Nothing really, it has been performing flawlessly.
  • I did not run into any problems.
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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
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are definitely going to continue using Papertrail. It's been a lifesaver.
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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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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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Return on Investment
  • It has made and positive effect on my work.
  • It has saved me a lot of time for my needs.
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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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