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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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SolarWinds Unified Login

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…

Campfire

Introduction Papertrail can send a chat message to a Campfire room; the chat message will contain the logs and a link to context. Setup Follow the steps in Alerts. Settings From Campfire, click the My…

Docker

To send logs from applications running in a Docker container, choose based on your Docker version and deployment preferences. Here's a screenshot of Docker logs in Papertrail’s event viewer. Log aggregation methods Not sure? Use…

Automatic S3 archive export

Create an Amazon Web Services account at http://aws.amazon.com and activate Amazon S3 on your account. Once your account is activated, create a bucket for log archives, and share write-only access to Papertrail for nightly uploads.…

PagerDuty

Introduction Papertrail can invoke a PagerDuty alert escalation policy, such as to generate text messages. Read more in a Papertrail blog post. Papertrail uses the PagerDuty Integration API for this integration. Setup Follow the steps…

systemd

To send system logs from Linux distributions using systemd (including newer releases of CentOS and CoreOS), follow the steps shown below to forward output from journalctl to Papertrail. For applications running in a Docker container,…

Heroku

Introduction Heroku is a Platform-as-a-Service for deploying and scaling applications. Here’s how to aggregate logs from a Heroku app. New to Papertrail or Heroku? This introduction explains how great log visibility helps. Setup Heroku apps…

Ruby on Rails

To send Ruby on Rails request logs, either: use Papertrail's tiny remote_syslog2 daemon to read an existing log file (like production.log), orchange Rails' environment config to use the remote_syslog_logger gem. We recommend remote_syslog2 because it…

Cloud Foundry

Introduction Cloud Foundry is a Platform-as-a-Service for deploying and scaling applications. Setup Create a Papertrail account (free) If you don't already have an account, sign up (free). Register app with Papertrail More recent implementations of…

MySQL

Aggregate logs from MySQL, including slow queries and error messages. Introduction We recommend Papertrail's tiny standalone remote_syslog2 daemon to read the mysql-slow.log (and any other log files) in realtime (remote_syslog2). It requires no changes to…

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