Best Log Monitoring Software

Products Buyer's Guide
8.4
SolarWinds Papertrail
★★★★★

SolarWinds Papertrail

Papertrail provides lightning-fast log management tools for 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. You can use Papertrail with a wide variety of log types, including syslog, text log files, Apache, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Windows events, ...

PaperTrail is a great cloud product - Vera V.

Ease of use
8.3
Support
8.3
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.0
SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
★★★★★

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server

Kiwi Syslog Server allows to ship all logs from routers, switches and servers in a single file.

You have a storm of Syslog Messages in your Environment then try out Solarwinds Kiwi Syslog Server - Rekha Y.

Ease of use
9.4
Support
8.8
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

7.8
Google Cloud Access Transparency
★★★★★

Google Cloud Access Transparency

Google Cloud Access Transparency gives you near real-time logs when Google Cloud Platform administrators access your content. GCP's Cloud Audit Logs already provide visibility into the actions of your own administrators.

Worth Every Penny - Administrator in Information Technology and Services

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8.6
Retrace
★★★★★

Retrace

Application monitoring performance and troubleshooting solution

Better and easy to monitor all your errors. - Russell P.

Ease of use
8.0
Support
8.8
Ease of Setup
7.9

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.6
Centreon
★★★★★

Centreon

Centreon develops enterprise IT monitoring solutions based on industry standard open source.

Centreon infrastructure monitoring tool - Omkar d.

Ease of use
9.6
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
9.4
9.2
Scalyr
★★★★★

Scalyr

Built for engineers by engineers, Scalyr is the blazing fast log management platform for the DevOps front line.

Fast and not too expensive - Administrator in Information Technology and Services

Ease of use
8.4
Support
9.5
Ease of Setup
8.9

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.0
LogicMonitor
★★★★★

LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor is the SaaS-based, automated performance monitoring platform that provides agile IT Ops teams with the visibility and actionable metrics they need to ensure the availability of services and applications running on complex and distributed infrastructure.

LogicMonitor: Finally a SaaS monitoring solution that fits what I need - Tyler C.

Ease of use
8.7
Support
9.0
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 0

8.4
Netcrunch
★★★★★

Netcrunch

NetCrunch is a monitoring and visualization system software for networks, applications and devices.

Network monitoring software - yehuda s.

Ease of use
Support
Ease of Setup

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.4
New Relic One
★★★★★

New Relic One

New Relic is the industry's largest and most comprehensive cloud-based instrumentation platform to help customers create more perfect software.

Been going downhill for years. I'm surprised their rating is this high. Do they pay for reviews - Dylan W.

Ease of use
8.0
Support
8.4
Ease of Setup
8.0
8.6
Sumo Logic
★★★★★

Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic enables enterprises to build analytical power that transforms daily operations into intelligent business decisions

Makes life easy for support! - Kshiitija (Prachii) D.

Ease of use
8.1
Support
8.6
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English

8.8
Awstats
★★★★★

Awstats

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages

It provides Great insights in single UI and more options like geo taking, daily visitor details - Pradeep N.

Ease of use
9.6
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.4
Datadog
★★★★★

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.

An all in one solution for metrics, logs, and infrastructure success for your DevOps team. - Randy N.

Ease of use
7.9
Support
8.2
Ease of Setup
8.5

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.6
Blumira Automated Detection & Response
★★★★★

Blumira Automated Detection & Response

Blumira's Automated SIEM enables organizations to detect and respond effectively to cybersecurity threats without having a dedicated in-house security operations center or security expertise.

strong incident detection and response capability - Administrator in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Ease of use
9.4
Support
9.5
Ease of Setup
9.5

Languages supported: English

8.0
AQtime Pro
★★★★★

AQtime Pro

AQtime Pro is an integrated profiling toolkit that find issues and memory leaks with application runtime analysis and performance profiling.

AQ time pro for memory leaks and performance improvement - Rahul J.

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10.0
Squaredup for SCOM
★★★★★

Squaredup for SCOM

Squaredup for SCOM offers a modern HTML5 web visualization tool for Microsoft system center operations manager.

SquaredUp for SCOM is a Great product with amazing support - Pascal V.

Ease of use
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10.0
SentinelAgent
★★★★★

SentinelAgent

SentinelAgent is an ultra-lightweight and scalable SaaS Monitoring Solution for Microsoft systems (Microsoft Exchange, MS Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQLServer and Microsoft Dynamics NAV). It securely captures, stores and analyzes event logs, performance metrics (WMI) and system inventory in real-time from any number of Windows PCs, tablets and servers on your network

Great Software - Diana V.

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9.2
checkmk
★★★★★

checkmk

Helping you stay up and running from simple to the most complex environments

Monitor 5000 hosts with it in a very performant way - Peter G.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
9.2
Ease of Setup
8.7

Languages supported: German, English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.4
Pandora FMS
★★★★★

Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS is the most flexible monitoring software in the market.

In love with Policies and integrations - Gutierrez A.

Ease of use
9.2
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
0.0

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 0

9.0
LogDNA
★★★★★

LogDNA

An easy log management system

An awesome platform to aggregate and search for all of your server logs. - Pratyaksh G.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
9.1
Ease of Setup
8.9

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.0
Humio
★★★★★

Humio

Log management for developers

Good log aggregation, slow UI - Ogaday W.

Ease of use
7.3
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
7.8

Languages supported: Danish, English, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified)

7.8
SolarWinds Loggly
★★★★★

SolarWinds Loggly

Cloud log management service delivering application intelligence. No Software. No Downloads. No Sweat

Big on promises, low on anything else. - Administrator in Computer Software

Ease of use
6.8
Support
7.8
Ease of Setup
7.7
9.0
Apache log4j
★★★★★

Apache log4j

Apache Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in Logback architecture.

Highly configurable using files on runtime, multi level of loggingg and custimizable log format - Umesh K.

Ease of use
8.7
Support
9.2
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.8
Progress WhatsUp Gold
★★★★★

Progress WhatsUp Gold

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold is unified infrastructure and application monitoring software that gives modern IT teams the ability to monitor their increasingly complex IT environment with a single product.

WhatsUpGold Review - Eric J.

Ease of use
8.1
Support
9.1
Ease of Setup
7.0

Languages supported: German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified)

8.8
Graylog
★★★★★

Graylog

Graylog is an open source, centralized log management alternative to Splunk. Graylog captures, stores, and enables real-time search and analysis against terabytes of machine data from any component in the IT infrastructure.

It's free, it works, it's good. But it has a learning curve... - User in Automotive

Ease of use
8.5
Support
8.9
Ease of Setup
8.2

Languages supported: English

9.4
Lightstep
★★★★★

Lightstep

Lightstep is rethinking observability in the emerging world of microservices and high concurrency. Its first product enables developers and devops to trace individual requests through complex systems with incredibly high fidelity.

Best vendors I've worked with, on any domain - Bhu B.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
8.9

Languages supported: English

9.0
Dynatrace
★★★★★

Dynatrace

Dynatrace has redefined how you monitor today's digital ecosystems. AI-powered, full stack and completely automated, it's the only solution that provides answers, not just data, based on deep insight into every user, every transaction, across every application. The world's leading brands trust Dynatrace to optimize customer experiences, innovate faster and modernize IT operations with absolute confidence.

Brilliant Application Performance Monitoring Solution - Ayodele A.

Ease of use
8.3
Support
9.1
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)

9.6
Sematext Cloud
★★★★★

Sematext Cloud

Sematext is a globally distributed organization that builds innovative Cloud and On Premise solutions for infrastructure and application performance monitoring and log management.

i had a great experiance with Sematext cloud.I got support for the cloud related problems. - Ashutosh S.

Ease of use
9.2
Support
9.7
Ease of Setup
9.1

Languages supported: Bosnian, English, Croatian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 0

8.0
WebSitePulse
★★★★★

WebSitePulse

WebSitePulse is a leading provider of advanced, independent and remote website and server monitoring services that enable clients to increase the efficiency of their mission-critical e-business operations, and to reduce their risk of failed Internet transactions and loss of revenue.

WebSitePulse - Rahul S.

Ease of use
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8.0
pganalyze
★★★★★

pganalyze

Pganalyze is an PostgreSQL performance monitoringthatmaintains production database.

Awesome tool for PostgreSQL performance monitoring - SUBHA P.

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