Ratings Breakdown
User Reviews Overview
Feature Ratings
Ease-of-use
4.5 / 5
Value for Money
4.5 / 5
Customer Support
5.0 / 5
Functionality
4.5 / 5
Pros
"- Very easy to setup - Search engine is very intuitive for any technical person (regex, .. etc) - Log parser is very flexible - Alerts are very helpful to detect error or anomalies in your platform"
"Good set of features and easy to set up. The trial was up and running in a matter of hours and we could start getting useful information pretty much straight away."
"I can get to the information I'm looking for quickly and easily. UI is modern and visually appealing."
Cons
"Works well so far so have no complaints. The UI, although have been recently updated, still seems a bit clunky and not too pleasing but works well."
"It's UI is a little bit old wich in the first touch make me a little bit unconfortable"
"When the amount of the data gets large enough, the search may not work - it will either end up giving me partial data or timeout."
Scalyr Reviews
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September 2017
Ben from DataFox Inc
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017
Love Scalyr
Pros
We were a very early adopter of Scalyr and it continues to be the core of our devops setup. We use it for the majority of our monitoring, alerting, forensics and log analysis. The biggest pro is that it's a fantastic value for the cost -- it's literally a fraction of the cost of SumoLogic or Splunk. It's also a lot faster than both of those options, especially Splunk. Integrating with Slack and PagerDuty were trivial, and the API is dead simple to use (we push stats into Redshift so we can graph timeseries in Chartio). The customer support is always quick and extremely helpful. Overall, we're big fans.
Cons
UI is still confusing at times, though this is greatly improved over the last two years. It also lacks some of the advanced graphing features of Splunk like complex time-series analyses, though these are nice-to-have features for me.
May 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2019
Easy to use logging software which provides great value to both large and small teams.
Overall experience has been great. Our servers are entirely on the cloud, by combining Scalyr with Splunk, we are able to monitor server logs on a realtime basis and immediately be alerted of production fires or any errors which occur thereby helping us respond in near realtime basis. While querying was not very intuitive at first, the newer powerqueries seem to hold great promise. the scalyr software has more progress to make, but at the moment it really does give the value for every penny invested in this software.
Pros
It gives you a real time insights into your server logs. This is especially important for SaaS products, because you can literally monitor every single log. It is very easy to setup and get started, nothing too complicated. Alerting is very easy based on various criterion Minimal but fully functional software
Cons
1. Searching and Querying is still in it's primitive stages, so searching is only as good as the way your logging is enabled in your software code. The scalyr software essentially displays your logs. If your software has no logging in place, then if you have a production fire due to bad code on production there is no way of knowing it. 2. Not sufficient documentation to get up to speed and running wrt querying.
October 2017
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2017
Does its job well
Pros
it's easy to use; has an intuitive interface for search. It basically almost always does what it's supposed to do.
Cons
When the amount of the data gets large enough, the search may not work - it will either end up giving me partial data or timeout.
September 2017
Jeffrey from Results Generation
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2017
Great tool with some work to still be done
Pros
Fast searches for just about anything within the log files Easy to setup Easy to use query language and parsers Easy to create dashboards Easy to use APIs This has helped us find problems very quickly, and avoid many problems, it has paid for itself many times over.
Cons
No export from web console Short timeouts on queries causing problems sometimes when trying to gather data over more than a week There are some features/integrations that we had to build because they do not exist like Rabbitmq stats, memcache stats, and running SQL queries on our databases. Bug in live tail makes it difficult to use when you have multi line log entries
September 2017
Khaled from Zalando SE
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Internet
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2017
I used Scaylr everyday with our applications and it's really amazing.
Pros
* Searching and filtering for logs is really awesome * Performance of the agent and really good. * Switching between different accounts after the new UI change is really useful. * Log Volume tracking.
Cons
* Sometimes search is a bit slow for large queries, It would be nice to optimize the message indexing or having to prepare some frequently used queries. * It would be great to share queries between team members or have pre-defined filters. * Having some built-in analysis for errors and different log levels would be great.
September 2017
Michael from Plivo Inc
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017
Powerful logging and search engine
Pros
- Very easy to setup - Search engine is very intuitive for any technical person (regex, .. etc) - Log parser is very flexible - Alerts are very helpful to detect error or anomalies in your platform
Cons
Very few things that could improve the product for my own use case: - Allow date/time with timezone in the time range filter (eg. 2017-09-21 17:44:17+00:00) - Allow exporting search result/logs and graph from the UI
October 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
October 2018
Very good
Pros
It's very fast and allows to filter data in a very easy way
Cons
It's UI is a little bit old wich in the first touch make me a little bit unconfortable
September 2017
Youssef from Zalando SE
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Internet
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2017
Easy, fast and flexible
Pros
- Easy to use - UI is stable, not buggy - Flexible for navigation and filtering - I like live tail feature a lot.
Cons
- It is not clear easily from the UI how much logs Scalyr retain from the past. - The applications list screen can be very long if one uses Scalyr for many services, better to find a more nice way to show those.
September 2017
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2017
Easy to use and fast
Pros
I can get to the information I'm looking for quickly and easily. UI is modern and visually appealing.
Cons
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September 2017
Avinash from Logitech
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017
September 2017
Anonymous
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017
Great solution for my new startup team to get visibility to our apps in a unified way.
Having used significantly more expensive solutions in prior companies I really like the value.
Pros
The ease of onboarding has really been a highlight. With only a few hours of effort we've quickly instrumented several hosts, adapted the parsing to meet our needs, and are getting real value. As a small team in the startup scene I'm very impressed with the app.
September 2017
Anonymous
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017
Developer
Pros
Quick and easy access to logs, nice search options, and a rapid interface when browsing and reading a lot of lines from a log.Scalyr does exactly what we wanted it to. It automatically stores the logs for each server separately, and have a good search function to easily find the right date or error.
September 2017
James from Advance Internet
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Publishing
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017
September 2017
Anonymous
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2017
Good Feature Set
Pros
Good set of features and easy to set up. The trial was up and running in a matter of hours and we could start getting useful information pretty much straight away.
Cons
The product doesn't necessarily scale to all sizes of organisation. It's suited to a certain size of organisation.
February 2019
Dealdiane from NetPotential
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
February 2019
A great tool for managing and troubleshooting multiple projects
Pros
The fact that logs from different servers can be managed from a single place is great. Setup was easy although we haven't tried advanced configurations yet. It works well for what it's been intended to do.
Cons
Works well so far so have no complaints. The UI, although have been recently updated, still seems a bit clunky and not too pleasing but works well.
August 2018
Juan from Axtel
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
August 2018
May 2019
Prashant from General Motors
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Automotive
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2019
Logs at your fingertips!
Pros
Super fast log search and custom dashboard are the much appreciated features.
Cons
Pricing model can be improved and made more customer friendly.
September 2017
Charlie from Johnson & Johnson
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2017