Logs

Papertrail

SolarWinds

Dead-simple cloud-hosted syslog/tail aggregation ("live tail in the browser") for quick troubleshooting; classic for small teams.

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Category: Logs
License: Proprietary
Deployment: SaaS
Cost: Low
Free tier: Yes
Self-host effort: —
Maturity: Legacy
Popularity: Mature but in maintenance mode

The catch

Simplicity is also the ceiling — short retention windows, basic search, no real analytics/SIEM; a tail-and-grep service that gets pricey-per-value as volumes grow.

Monitors

LogsServers

Protocols

Syslog

Capabilities

Alerting

Built for

SMBDevelopers

First-hand data

data as of Jun 24, 2026

Significant incidents · 90d: 0none on record
Incident-minutes logged: 0 mincumulative, not downtime

Polled first-hand from each vendor's public status page & GitHub. "Significant" excludes informational notices & planned maintenance; incident-minutes sum per-incident durations (not platform downtime). Method & full data →

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