Papertrail Erfahrungen

Intuitive UI, easy to use and setup.
I can integrate papertrail to my app rapidly.
It saves me a lot of time for troubleshooting issues.

Do not have the on premise (Self-Hosted) version.

We use Papertrail for monitoring all of our micro services. It's really convenient to get an overview of the state of a service, quick and easy to filter through logs and to set up alerts for warnings or errors. Because of its integration with Heroku, adding Papertrail to a new service can be done in just a few clicks.

It may be difficult to use some functions without prior software development knowledge. The syntax for filtering logs differs from the one used to set up alerts (with the latter being regex).

Easy to integrate: It took only 30 minutes to integrate Papertrail with our application. There are step-by-step instructions to integrate Papertrail with your app in most web servers/frameworks.

The UI is pretty basic.
No built-in analysis feature, we have to export the log manually for analysis.

It is easy to link Papertrail to applications and search logs for the given log storage time.

We only keep logs for 24 hours, and then we store them in S3. It is very difficult to search through these logs since they are broken up into one hour chunks and all mixed together. Though I understand if that is outside of Papertrail's control.

Good Insight on debug logs, and event monitoring, Provides high lithed view of the errors in the application.

Monitoring database events, there is scope for improvement on monitoring the database level events/logs/deadlocks.

With today’s web infrastructure relying on multiple containers, it means that logs generation speed has multiplied and it makes it difficult to debug and trace core functionality. Papertrail helps solve the issue by providing a pipeline to a clean UI and tools to make it easy to debug and keep visibility of key application transactions.

It’s cost structure was confusing at first and we spent our quota too quickly. It required us to rethink what to log and what not to log, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

The ability to have multiple machines per host is really nice feature. Additionally, the ability to send errors by email, webhook or with any other integration is nice too.

Nothing big that I have discovered yet. The only feature that I wish for is that they would update the npm module.

The first impression with Papertrail is that it's pretty much completed and easy to use with simple steps for new users.
It saves and shows logs according to your need, so it helps user saving lots of time and effort.
The software is very useful and stable, so I would recommend this to others.

The price is not very competitive. I would like to have more features with this price.