Logentries Review

Overview

Rapid7’s Logentries is a real-time analytics and log management platform designed for the cloud. It makes business insights from machine-produced log data accessible to business operations, IT, and development teams of all sizes. The software offers an open API and broad platform support to deliver the value of log-level data to its community of over 35,000 users globally.

Conventional analytics and log management tools are expensive to set up and need deep technical knowledge to use. Logentries is a great alternative to such systems as it is built to manage high volumes of data, visualizes key insights, and automates detailed reporting and analytics for its international user community.

Benefits

Real-Time Search

Real-time search and monitoring empower you to search your log occurrences as they happen for instant insight and dependable resolution. Features include context view, custom tags, and aggregated live-tail search.

Scale on Demand

Dynamically adapt and scale your infrastructure or data volume, regardless of environment, format, or size. Plus, you can centralize and search across hosts, apps, and servers. The software can be adapted to on-premise, container, and cloud environments. It offers universal platform support and there are no automated overage penalties.

Visualization and Analytics

Utilizing your logs as data provides you the capability to spot important trends and correlate occurrences across your platforms. Features include visual dashboards, full RegEx support, and SQL-like Query Language (LEQL).

Alerting & Reporting

Be the first one to get notification when something vital breaks or changes. The system’s real-time service triggers notifications and alerts within seconds. Features include user-defined thresholds, anomaly detection, weekly reporting, inactivity alerts, chat tool integrations, and pattern-based alerts.

Security

Logentries gives top priority to your security and provides you capabilities to meet your compliance needs. Features include dynamic log routing, user access controls, automated S3 archiving, TLS encryption, PCI compliance, and data filtering and obfuscation.

API & Integrations

Logentries offers an open API and has integrations with leading performance monitoring and chat solutions.

Universal Platform Support

Logentries allows you to decide how you wish to gather and manage your logs, and provides you support whichever method you prefer. Features include structured or unstructured data, libraries, platform integrations, and agent or agentless.

Product Features

Pricing

Rapid7 InsightOps Pricing and Plans

Standard Plan

• Starting from $48/mo paid annually
• 30 GB/mo
• Live Log Search
• 30 Day Retention
• Liveboards
• Visual Search
• Scheduled Reporting
• Pattern-based Alerting
• Inactivity & Anomaly Alerts
• REST API

Enterprise Plan

• Contact the vendor for pricing
• From 100 GB/mo

Includes all features of the Standard Plan, plus:

• 90 Day Retention
• Data Normalization
• Asset Interrogation (up to 5,000 assets)