SolarWinds Papertrail

What do you like best?

Setup is extremely easy, it took less than 5 minutes to setup my first log.I love the idea that it's an easy to configure solution. I think this will prove to be more reliable of a solution than using email reports or local storage solutions. I think setting up email alerts took way longer to implement.

What do you dislike?

I dislike the jump in cost from the free version to the equivalent storage space in the paid version, to get the same amount of storage after the free trial, you have to go from $0/ month up to $150/ month. . I dislike that they don't have a SMS alerts option, I feel like that would be a logical next step. Another feature I would to see, and I'm surprised they don't offer, unless I missed it, is the ability to send these logs / alerts to Solarwinds MSP, which does give me push notifications.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

For servers/ workstations the setup is straightforward, and takes virtually no time at all. More specialized devices/ platforms will take more knowledge and setup time. I don't think I've ever seen a pre-built solution for logs like this. It would take far more work to setup manually.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

An easy, consolidated, cloud access solution for all the various logs I need to keep track of. I'm not super experienced with it, but it looks like I can setup a wide variety of devices to send their logs to papertrail