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Comparison

Loggly vs Papertrail

No clear leader: Papertrail (58.1) and Loggly (57.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Loggly full profile →Papertrail full profile →
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Loggly58
Papertrail58
Score
Vioscale score
Loggly58 / 100low · 49%
Papertrail58 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Model
Logglyfreemium
Papertrailfreemium
Price level
Logglyhigh
Papertrailhigh
Transparent
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Integrations
Count
Loggly23
Papertrail15
Security
Gdpr
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Reliability
Status page
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for log management software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Pipeline role
LogglyEnd-to-end platform
PapertrailEnd-to-end platform
Search
Full-text log search
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Live tail / stream
Loggly-
Papertrail✓
Processing
Structured parsing
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
PII redaction at ingest
Loggly-
Papertrail✗
Ops
Log-based alerting
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Dashboards / visualisation
Loggly✓
Papertrail✗
Storage
Retention tiering
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
Object-store columnar backend
Loggly✗
Papertrail✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry logs
Loggly-
PapertrailNone
Query language
Logglysimple keyword search
Papertrailproprietary search + SQL (Hive for archives)
Deployment
Hosting
LogglyCloud only
PapertrailCloud only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Loggly

A cloud service that aggregates logs from multiple sources and provides searching, analysis, visualization, and alerting capabilities for application monitoring and troubleshooting.

Independently observed

Papertrail

Cloud-based log aggregation service that collects logs from multiple sources and systems, providing centralized visibility with search, alerting, live-tailing, and archival capabilities. Designed for developers and operations teams to troubleshoot issues and maintain system uptime without complexity.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Loggly

from $79/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

From $79/month (annual billing), with free tier

  • LiteFree
    • Centralized log management
    • Automated log summaries
    • Search & filters
  • Standard$79/month billed annually
    • All Lite features
    • Unlimited users
    • Up to 3 source groups
    • Email alerting
    • Charts and dashboards
    • +1 more
  • Pro$159/month billed annually
    • All Standard features
    • Up to 5 source groups
    • Email and webhook alerts
    • Custom derived fields (up to 10 rules)
    • API access
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Pro features
    • Unlimited source groups
    • Unlimited derived field rules
    • Custom retention periods
    • Technical success management
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

Papertrail

from $82/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

From $82/month. Free tier and 30-day free trial available. Also offers 8 GB, 25 GB, and 50 GB monthly plans with variable pricing.

  • 16 GB/month - 1 day retention$82/month
  • 16 GB/month - 3 days retention$103/month
  • 16 GB/month - 7 days retention$125/month
  • 16 GB/month - 14 days retention$150/month
  • 16 GB/month - 30 days retention$195/month
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓
CLI
Loggly✗
Papertrail✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Loggly✓
Papertrail✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • PagerDuty

Loggly

23 total - 22 not shared
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon ELB
  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Lambda
  • Docker
  • Elasticsearch
  • Flowdock
  • GitHub
  • Graylog
  • HipChat
  • JIRA Software
  • Logstash
  • Mandrill
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Monolog
  • New Relic
  • Pushover
  • Rollbar
  • Sentry
  • Slack
  • VictorOps
  • Webhooks
Independently observed

Papertrail

16 total - 15 not shared
  • Zapier
  • Teams
  • Google Sheets
  • Kubernetes
  • DigitalOcean
  • AppOptics
  • Snap Agent
  • S3
  • Hadoop
  • Hive
  • HTTP webhooks
  • Email
  • remote_syslog2
  • Unix/BSD system logs
  • Windows
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.