Papertrail

Cloud-hosted log management service that aggregates logs from applications, servers, network devices, and platforms into a central place. Provides live tail, full-text search, and log velocity analytics so teams can troubleshoot faster without SSH or manual log digging.

Part of SolarWinds, Papertrail manages logs at scale for operations-focused organizations. It stands out with fast setup, typically minutes to visibility across systems, and a focus on developer ergonomics: search via browser, command line, or API. Integrates with PagerDuty and Slack for incident workflows.

Key capabilities:

• Live tail and lightning-fast search across aggregated logs
• Syslog ingestion for routers, firewalls, and text log files
• Support for Ruby, Node.js, Java, MySQL, NGINX, Apache, Tomcat, and cloud platforms including Heroku, AWS, and Azure
• Log velocity analytics to troubleshoot spikes or spot trends over time
• Saved searches, system groups, and team-wide access without SSH or RDP
• Archive integration with common storage and observability services

Developers use Papertrail to debug production issues by searching and tailing logs from a browser or CLI, correlating app errors with infrastructure events. DevOps teams centralize logs from Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud hosts to trace customer problems and slow queries. The command-line client and syslog forwarders ship logs from any environment.