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Between HTTP access and error logs, it’s easy for a single website to have tens or hundreds of log files, and identifying the right log file can become a challenge.
Logs can quickly grow in size for high-traffic sites, making it difficult to find clues when troubleshooting.
The vast amounts of data in scattered web logs make website management time-consuming.
With all your IIS logs aggregated together, searching through them becomes simple. No more dealing with individual log files spread across your environment. Use the central interface to access all your web logs at the same time. Use NXlog or eventlog to syslog to forward all your logs to SolarWinds® Papertrail™. If you need increased security, you can send your log messages over TCP with TLS encryption and protect your data using cryptographic protocols. Web apps running on IIS can use logging libraries such NLog or log4net to send their application-level logs directly to Papertrail, so you can view web server and web app logs in one place.
Sign up for a free planPapertrail provides a single view of your IIS log files, allowing you to discover trends and patterns in the data. Interactively search through access and error logs with advanced searching and filtering. Search by time, date, IP address, user ID, and more. With clickable log elements, you can quickly navigate through all log messages in the same context and analyze user transactions spread over multiple messages. Filter the event stream in real time to focus on the most important entries. Visualize data using log velocity analytics, and analyze traffic spikes and increases in error messages over a specified time period.
Sign up for a free planUse regular expressions to create powerful searches and help troubleshoot issues affecting your web servers. Don’t worry about having to choose between old search results and live logs—Papertrail gives you both. Filter out unwanted distractions with exclusion searches, and turn saved searches into alerts to receive notifications whenever an unexpected event occurs. You can also get notified when an expected event doesn’t happen using inactivity alerts from Papertrail. Monitor your infrastructure and get status updates every minute, hour, or day via email and a range of communication tools including Slack, PagerDuty, Campfire, and even custom web hooks.
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