Best Log Monitoring Tools
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What are Log Monitoring Tools?
Log monitoring tools are software tools designed to collect, analyze, and track log data generated by systems, applications, and networks in real-time. They help organizations detect anomalies, performance issues, and security threats by providing insights into operational events and system behaviors. These tools often feature alerting mechanisms that notify administrators of potential issues, ensuring rapid response and minimizing downtime. By aggregating logs from multiple sources, log monitoring tools simplify troubleshooting and provide a centralized view of system health. They are essential for maintaining system reliability, compliance, and proactive problem management in IT environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Log Monitoring tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Blumira
Blumira
Empower Your Current Team to Achieve Enterprise-Level Security An all-in-one solution with SIEM, endpoint visibility, 24/7 monitoring, and automated response to reduce complexity, increase visibility and speed up time to respond. We handle the security heavy lifting, so you get time back in your day. With out-of-the-box detections, pre-filtered alerts, and response playbooks, IT teams can achieve real security value with Blumira. Quick Deployment, Immediate Results: Integrates with your tech stack and fully deploy, with no warm-up period, in hours All-You-Can-Eat Data Ingest: Predictable pricing and with unlimited data logging for full-lifecycle detection Compliance Made Easy: 1 year data retention included, pre-built reports, and 24/7 automated monitoring 99.7% CSAT Support: Solution Architects for product support, the Incident Detection and Response Team creating new detections, and 24/7 SecOps supportStarting Price: Free -
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groundcover
groundcover
Cloud-based observability solution that helps businesses track and manage workload and performance on a unified dashboard. Monitor everything you run in your cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale. groundcover is a full stack cloud-native APM platform designed to make observability effortless so that you can focus on building world-class products. By leveraging our proprietary sensor, groundcover unlocks unprecedented granularity on all your applications, eliminating the need for costly code changes and development cycles to ensure monitoring continuity. 100% visibility, all the time. Cover your entire Kubernetes stack instantly, with no code changes using the superpowers of eBPF instrumentation. Take control of your data, all in-cloud. groundcover’s unique inCloud architecture keeps your data private, secured and under your control without ever leaving your cloud premises.Starting Price: $20/month/node -
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Cynet empowers MSPs and MSSPs with a comprehensive, fully managed cybersecurity platform that consolidates essential security functions into a single, easy-to-use solution. Cynet simplifies cybersecurity management, reduces operational overhead, and lowers costs by eliminating the need for multiple vendors and complex integrations. The platform provides multi-layered breach protection, offering robust security for endpoints, networks, and SaaS/Cloud environments. Cynet’s advanced automation streamlines incident response, ensuring rapid detection, prevention, and resolution of threats. Additionally, the platform is backed by Cynet’s 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), where the expert CyOps team delivers around-the-clock monitoring and support to safeguard all client environments. By partnering with Cynet, You can offer your clients advanced, proactive cybersecurity services while optimizing efficiency. Discover how Cynet can transform your security offerings today.
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AdRem NetCrunch
AdRem Software
NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed.Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes -
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Pandora FMS
Pandora FMS
With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.Starting Price: €90/month -
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Sematext Cloud
Sematext Group
Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.Starting Price: $0 -
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Better Stack
Better Stack
Better Stack is a unified observability tool that helps you ship better software, faster. Schedule on-call rotations, receive actionable alerts, and resolve incidents with ease. Better Stack brings together incident management, uptime monitoring, status pages, log management, and infrastructure monitoring – all in one place. Built for speed and scale, it combines multiple monitoring and alerting workflows into a single, powerful interface that boosts visibility and slashes response times. Key features include an OpenTelemetry-native Kubernetes collector powered by eBPF, real-time alerting, and collaborative dashboards. Under the hood, Better Stack runs on ClickHouse, enabling lightning-fast queries and scalable ingestion across high-cardinality datasets. You can visualize your entire stack, turn all your logs into structured data, and query everything with SQL – as if it were a single database. Seamlessly integrates into your workflow with 100+ integrations.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Datadog
Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.Starting Price: $15.00/host/month -
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Corner Bowl Server Manager
Corner Bowl Software Corporation
SIEM, Log Management, Server Monitoring and Uptime Monitoring Software for Less! Industry leading free and responsive phone and remote session support when you need it the most. Get compliant by centrally storing Event Logs, syslogs and application logs from any system or device. Receive real-time notifications when users login, accounts are locked out and accounts are changed. Satisfy auditing requirements such as JSIG and NIST with our out-of-the-box SIEM and security reports. Monitor server resources such as CPU, memory, disk space, directory size and process specific resource consumption. Restart services, kill processes, remote launch custom scripts and fire SNMP Traps. Generate file and directory user access audit reports. Receive SNMP Traps, monitor SNMP Get values and much more. Get real-time notifications when network performance degrades below acceptable performance thresholds. Monitor web, email, database, FTP, DNS and Active Directive servers. Monitor Docker Containers.Starting Price: $20 one-time fee -
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Dynatrace
Dynatrace
The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.Starting Price: $11 per month -
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SolarWinds Observability SaaS
SolarWinds
SaaS-delivered Observability built to extend visibility across cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid technology stacks. SolarWinds Observability SaaS delivers unified and comprehensive visibility for cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid custom and commercial applications to help ensure optimal service levels and user satisfaction with key business services. For internally written and commercial applications. Unified code-level troubleshooting with transaction tracing, code-profiling, and exception tracking combined with end user experience insights through synthetic and real user monitoring. Deep database performance monitoring. Increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings by offering full visibility into open-source databases including MySQL®, PostgreSQL®, MongoDB®, Azure® SQL, Amazon Aurora®, and Redis®. -
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Checkmk
Checkmk
Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container MonitoringStarting Price: $0/year -
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Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic offers a cloud solution for log management and metrics monitoring for IT and security teams of organizations of all sizes. Faster troubleshooting with integrated logs, metrics and traces. One platform. Many use cases. Increase your troubleshooting effectiveness. Sumo Logic helps you reduce downtime and move from reactive to proactive monitoring with cloud-based modern analytics powered by machine learning. Quickly detect Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), accelerate investigation, and ensure compliance using Sumo Logic Security Analytics. Enable data-driven business decisions and predict and analyze customer behavior using Sumo Logic’s real-time analytics platform. The Sumo Logic platform helps you make data-driven decisions and reduce the time to investigate security and operational issues so you can free up resources for more important activities.Starting Price: $270.00 per month -
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Graylog
Graylog
Built on the Graylog Platform, Graylog Security is the industry’s best-of-breed threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) solution. It simplifies analysts’ day-to-day cybersecurity activities with an unmatched workflow and user experience while simultaneously providing short- and long-term budget flexibility in the form of low total cost of ownership (TCO) that CISOs covet. With Graylog Security, security analysts can: 1. Decrease risk and metrics like mean time to detect (MTTD) by aligning threat detection coverage to meet your security objectives 2. Reduce TCO with native data routing and data tiering functionality 3. Reduce key metrics like mean time to respond (MTTR) by quickly resolving the alerts that matter. Graylog Security is a robust, scalable solution that empowers analysts to detect and respond to cybersecurity threats efficiently. With integrated SOAR functionality, it automates repetitive tasks, orchestrates workflows, and accelerates incident response.Starting Price: $1550/month (10GB per day) -
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WhatsUp Gold
Progress
Avoid downtime with a network monitoring solution that covers you from the network edge to the cloud. See developing issues before users report them. Troubleshoot faster from an interactive topology map that shows connectivity and dependencies. See what's up and what's down instantly whether in the cloud or on-premises. Get complete visibility to the status of network devices, systems and applications. Leverage topology-aware monitoring that understands network dependencies so you receive fewer, more intelligent alerts. Receive notifications through SMS, email, web or Slack so you know about developing issues before users report them. Integrate your other systems with a powerful REST API to automate your workload. See network devices, servers, virtual machines, cloud and wireless environments in context. Click on any device to get immediate access to a wealth of related network monitoring settings and reports. See how everything is connected and get answers faster.Starting Price: $1755.00/one-time -
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LogPoint
LogPoint
Get a simple and fast security analytics implementation, along with a user-friendly interface that can be integrated with an entire IT infrastructure with LogPoint. LogPoint’s modern SIEM with UEBA provides advanced analytics and ML-driven automation capabilities that enable their customers to securely build-, manage, and effectively transform their businesses.They have a flat licensing model, based on nodes rather than data volume. This helps to reduce the cost of deploying a SIEM solution on-premise, in the cloud or even as an MSSP. The solution integrates easily with all devices in your network, giving a holistic and correlated overview of events in your IT infrastructure. LogPoint’s Modern SIEM solution translates all data into one common language, making it possible to compare events across all systems. Having a common language makes it both very easy and efficient to search, analyze and report on data. -
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SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds
SolarWinds® Loggly® is a cost-effective, hosted, and scalable full-stack, multi-source log management solution combining powerful search and analytics with comprehensive alerting, dashboarding, and reporting to proactively identify problems and significantly reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). LOGGLY AT A GLANCE » Full-stack, multi-source log aggregation, log monitoring, and data analytics » Log analytics show events in context, highlight patterns, and detect anomalies for deeper insights » Highly scalable to ingest massive data volumes and help enable quick searching across large and complex environments » Spot usage patterns with application, service, and infrastructure-aligned historical analysis of user, log, and infrastructure data » Manage by exception by identifying variations from normal with powerful log formatting and analytic search capabilitiesStarting Price: Free -
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VirtualMetric
VirtualMetric
VirtualMetric is a powerful telemetry pipeline solution designed to enhance data collection, processing, and security monitoring across enterprise environments. Its core offering, DataStream, automatically collects and transforms security logs from a wide range of systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Unix, enriching data for further analysis. By reducing data volume and filtering out non-meaningful logs, VirtualMetric helps businesses lower SIEM ingestion costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve threat detection accuracy. The platform’s scalable architecture, with features like zero data loss and long-term compliance storage, ensures that businesses can maintain high security standards while optimizing performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Logmanager
Logmanager
Logmanager is a centralized log management platform enhanced with SIEM capabilities that radically simplifies responses to cyberthreats, legal compliance, and troubleshooting. By transforming diverse logs, events, metrics, and traces into actionable insights, it helps security and operations teams respond swiftly to any incident. Experience effortless self-management and customization, peerless functionality, and the flexibility to take control of your entire technology stack. – Effortlessly aggregate and standardize log files from diverse sources into one unified platform. – Enjoy rapid deployment, 140+ built-in integrations, and effortless scalability. – Get real-time visibility into security events to quickly detect, analyze, and address threats. – Use dozens of predefined security dashboards or customize your own views. – Set up alerts based on multiple trigger conditions or custom-defined rules. – Transparent pricing with no hidden fees. Pay as you go, scale as you grow.Starting Price: $500 per month -
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EventSentry
NETIKUS.NET ltd
Hybrid SIEM solution combining real-time (event) log monitoring with comprehensive system health & network monitoring provides users with a complete picture of their servers and endpoints. The included security event log normalization & correlation engine with descriptive email alerts provides additional context and presents cryptic Windows security events in easy to understand reports that offer insight beyond what is available from raw events. EventSentry's NetFlow component visualizes network traffic, can detect malicious activity and offers insight into bandwith usage. Keeping track of Active Directory changes is easy with EventSentry's ADMonitor component that records all changes to AD & Group Policy objects and provides a complete user inventory to help identify obsolete accounts. Various integrations & multi-tenancy available.Starting Price: $85.00/one-time -
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LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything from networks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. Bridge the gap between tech, teams, and IT with powerful real-time dashboards, network device configurations, full data center visibility, network scanning, and flexible alerting and reporting. -
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Stackify Retrace
Stackify
After one too many unexpected late night code fires, we went searching for a set of application performance management tools to help us put an end to it. What we found told us what was broken, but lacked the ability to tell us why our applications failed, or how to maintain them and prevent the potential dumpster fire. So, we built Retrace to do exactly that. From pre-production to deployment, it is our belief that when our 1300+ customers spend less time fighting technology they spend more time releasing it, and those new applications make the world a better place for all of us.Starting Price: $99/month -
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Logz.io
Logz.io
We know engineers love open source. So we supercharged the best open source monitoring tools — including ELK, Prometheus, and Jaeger, and unified them on a scalable SaaS platform. Collect and analyze your logs, metrics, and traces on one unified platform for end-to-end monitoring. Visualize your data on easy-to-use and customizable monitoring dashboards. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs. Quickly respond to new events with alerting to Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Centralize your metrics at any scale on Prometheus-as-a-service. Unified with logs and traces. Add just three lines of code to your Prometheus config files to begin forwarding your metrics to Logz.io for storage and analysis. Quickly respond to new events by alerting Slack, PagerDuty, Gmail, and other endpoints. Logz.io’s human-coached AI/ML automatically uncovers errors and exceptions in your logs.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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SquaredUp
SquaredUp
SquaredUp is a unified observability portal. Say goodbye to blind spots and data silos. Using data mesh and cutting-edge data visualization, SquaredUp gives IT and engineering teams one place to see everything that matters. Bring together data from across your tech stack without the headache of moving the data. Unlike other monitoring and observability tools that rely on a data warehouse, SquaredUp leaves your data where it is, plugging directly into each data source to index and stitch the data together using a data mesh. Teams have one place to go where they can search, visualize, and analyze data across all their tools. Take control of infrastructure, application, and product performance with unified visibility. Free for up to 3 users. What you get: > Cutting-edge data visualization > Access to 100+ data sources > Any custom data source via Web API > Multi-cloud observability > Cost monitoring > Unlimited dashboards > Unlimited monitorsStarting Price: $9 Per user/month -
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DataSet
DataSet
DataSet retains live, searchable real-time insights. Store indefinitely using DataSet-hosted or customer-managed, low-cost S3 storage. Ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data faster than ever before. A limitless enterprise infrastructure for live data queries, analytics, insights, and retention, with no data schema requirements. The technology of choice for engineering, DevOps, IT, and security teams to unlock the power of data. Sub-second query performance powered by a patented parallel processing architecture. Work quicker and smarter to make better business decisions. Ingest hundreds of terabytes effortlessly. No rebalancing nodes, storage management, or resource reallocation. Scale on a limitless flexible platform. An efficient cloud-native architecture minimizes cost and maximizes output. Benefit from a predictable cost model with unmatched performance.Starting Price: $0.99 per GB per day -
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SolarWinds Kiwi Log Viewer
SolarWinds
Display log files in an easy-to-read tabular format and choose various search and filter options. Kiwi Log Viewer can read files up to 14TB to make sure you can view and search all logs you need regardless of size. Easily monitor changes to a specified log file in real-time. Display log files in easy-to-read tabular format. Monitor changes to a specified log file in real-time. Open files of any size and automatically highlight important text. Leverage sub-string matching or Perl-style regular expression (regex) matching. Apply highlighting rules to detect the most important messages quickly. Easily monitor log files for specific keywords, phrases, or patterns. Kiwi Log Viewer displays text-based log files in a tabular format. You can copy selected rows in tab-delimited format or click-select-copy any part of the row text. Thanks to the file tailing feature, you can monitor the specified log file for changes and view any new data added in real-time.Starting Price: $111 one-time payment -
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Icinga
Icinga GmbH
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations. Icinga 2 is the monitoring server and requires Icinga Web 2 on top in your Icinga Stack. The configuration can be easily managed with either the Icinga Director, config management tools or plain text within the Icinga DSL. Find answers, take actions and become a problem-solver. Be flexible and take your own ways. Stay curious, stay passionate, stay in the loop. Tackle your monitoring challenge. The Icinga stack spans six core strengths that cover all aspects of monitoring. Level up with valuable insights and on-time notifications, eye-opening visuals and analytics. Icinga easily integrates within your systems, and gives you the power to automate your tasks.Starting Price: $0 -
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Intelligent Discovery
Ldaptive
Intelligent Discovery helps you manage your AWS security with ease. Our industry-leading AWS vulnerability scanning and remediation tool allows you to quickly identify potential threats—without slowing down your infrastructure. Stay ahead of attackers looking for exploitable weaknesses by proactively identifying, resolving, and mitigating security threats through a user-friendly interface. Automate Security Auditing, Security Log Management, Customize Controls and so much more! Consolidated capacity, cost, and volume tools are in an evolving and scaling environment without impacting production or breaking the bank. As an organization grows, so does the management complexity of compliance. Defined organizational rule sets and customization expedite compliance. Consistent and frequent security logs, inventory, and change log monitoring bring inventory management into a consolidated interface.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Sentry
Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. With Sentry’s performance monitoring you can trace performance issues to poor-performing api calls and slow database queries. Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces. Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime. View the entire end-to-end distributed trace to see the exact, poor-performing API call and surface any related errors. Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).Starting Price: $26 per month -
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Mezmo
Mezmo
Mezmo (formerly LogDNA) enables organizations to instantly centralize, monitor, and analyze logs in real-time from any platform, at any volume. We seamlessly combine log aggregation, custom parsing, smart alerting, role based access controls, and real-time search, graphs, and log analysis in one suite of tools. Our cloud based SaaS solution sets up within two minutes to collect logs from AWS, Docker, Heroku, Elastic and more. Running Kubernetes? Start logging in two kubectl commands. Simple, pay-per-GB pricing without paywalls, overage charges, or fixed data buckets. Simply pay for the data you use on a month-to-month basis. We are SOC2, GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA compliant and are Privacy Shield certified. Our military grade encryption ensures your logs are secure in transit and storage. We empower developers with user-friendly, modernized features and natural search queries. With no special training required, we save you even more time and money.