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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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Erlang

Papertrail can accept logs from any Erlang (BEAM) app, with or without the lager logging library. Send log file with remote_syslog2 Configure your Erlang app to log to a file as usual, then transmit the…

Log filtering

Introduction Papertrail can filter incoming log messages that match one or more strings or regular expressions (regex) of your choosing. Log filtering is included with all Papertrail accounts and filtered messages don't consume log data…

User Roles and Access Levels

Organization Roles define the access users have to the organization’s settings and resources across all SolarWinds Application Management products (AppOptics, Loggly, Papertrail, and Pingdom). Product Roles define the access users have to the individual product's…

Users and Organizations

Using SolarWinds® Unified Login, you can easily access all SolarWinds Application Management products — Loggly, AppOptics, Papertrail, and Pingdom — and all organizations you are a member of. You won’t need to manage multiple credentials…

Node.js

Papertrail can accept logs from any Node.js app using a regular text log file or the libraries winston or bunyan. If the Node.js app is running on Heroku, try the Heroku setup instead. Send log…

Java log4j

Introduction log4j is "a popular logging package written in Java. One of its distinctive features is the notion of inheritance in loggers. Using a logger hierarchy it is possible to control which log statements are…

Hadoop and Hive: SELECT *

Step-by-step introduction to get interactive SQL query access to months of Papertrail log archives (using Hadoop and Hive). For a quick start, see Log analytics with Hadoop and Hive. Background This article covers how to:…

JavaScript

You can now configure JavaScript to send logs directly to the Papertrail HTTPS endpoint. See Log destinations for details. Logging messages from a client browser, like from Backbone, Angular, Ember, or simple console.log-style statements? Papertrail…

Unicorn

Unicorn is a high-performance forking Web server that is often used for serving Ruby on Rails applications. Many times, its logging configuration leads implementors to re-instantiate Rails' logger object, and in the process, to unintentionally log at DEBUG log level…

Zapier

Introduction Papertrail can invoke a Zapier action using a webhook trigger, which can then invoke any desired action in Zapier. Setup Papertrail sends data to a Zapier webhook URL when the alert fires. Get the…

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