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

EVENT VIEWER

APM INTEGRATION

BUILT FOR COLLABORATION

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It's the heart of Papertrail.

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Live Tail Seek by Time Context Elegant Search APM Integration Skim-ability Saved Searches Log Velocity Analytics

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APM Integration Feature List

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Built for Collaboration Feature List

Administrator Guide
- Documentation for Papertrail
Collect Logs
Collect Logs: Apps & Services
Collect Logs: Hosting Services
Collect Logs: Integrations
- Fluentd
- Librato
- Amazon CloudWatch
- StatHat
- Amazon SNS
- HostedGraphite
- Datadog
- Zapier
- VictorOps
- New Relic traces
- Slack
- Campfire
- PagerDuty
- New Relic Insights
- Pushover
- AppOptics
- Geckoboard
- OpsGenie
- Honeybadger
Manage Logs
Send Logs for Analytics
SolarWinds Users & Orgs
Support and Security
- Security and Compliance
- Support Policy
What's New
- Papertrail Release Notes

AWS OpsWorks

Intro

AWS OpsWorks is “a DevOps solution for managing applications of any scale or complexity on the AWS cloud.”

OpsWorks uses chef recipes for most customer-controlled configuration. System and app logs can easily be aggregated and managed by Papertrail with a minimal chef recipe.

Setup

Aggregating logs using system-level tools

Since chef cookbooks are the core method for configuring an app on OpsWorks, Papertrail recommends configuring log management with chef recipes.

Papertrail maintains an official Chef recipe using remote_syslog2, and a few customers or community members have open-sourced their standalone chef recipes for Papertrail with related tools like rsyslog or syslog-ng.

Papertrail: chef with remote_syslog2
chef with rsyslog (courtesy Librato)

Note that using both of these recipes together may result in some log duplication if node['papertrail']['watch_files'] is configured with rsyslog. If using both, simply skip that item (or use it, and omit the remote_syslog2 cookbook).

For an introduction to OpsWorks’ configuration stages and how OpsWorks uses chef-solo, see the User Guide.

Aggregating logs directly from app/framework

App logs from OpsWorks apps can often be aggregated with the same in-app logging libraries you would use in without OpsWorks. Look for your logging library, language, or framework under Configuration.