Ask HN: What logging SaaS solution do you use?

[fpereiro]

Hi HN! I am wondering if any of you is using a logging SaaS that you're happy with. I've been using logz.io but I am not impressed with it, and our team's research hasn't uncovered better alternatives.

In short, what we're looking for is: - Some service to which we can push our logs. - That will show our logs in their platform within 1-2 minutes of them being generated (almost real time). - That provides a decent UI for querying logs using free text search and date ranges. - That can let you set basic alerts to Slack. - That doesn't cost an absurd amount of money (< 1000x on the underlying computing resources).

Based on previous experience, I don't want to run (or use) Grafana or Loki. I'd rather use a good SaaS and pay ~100USD/mo for a relatively small volume of logs.

Do you have any alternatives that you're happy with?

[huncyrus]

Many companies sit on some cloud/managed infrastructure that often provides internal logging, like AWS CloudWatch, which requires a bunch of tricks, configs, and smart logging strategies, but can be cheap even for hundreds of log streams and millions of log lines. I heard about Datadog, and how good and expensive it could be. I met many companies that use ELK or self-hosted Grafana.

[fpereiro]

Thanks for the reply!

[hellcow]

I used Google Cloud's logs, which were quite good. Things worked as you'd expect and logs were easy to query. It was also very cheap.

When my company was acquired we started using Sumo, which is enormously overcomplicated and extremely expensive. I would rather gnaw off my own leg than use Sumo in a new project.

[fpereiro]

I just burst out laughing with your last sentence.

Great tip about Google Cloud! I would never have thought of that one. I'll check it out.

[swah]

Sentry

[fpereiro]

Thanks for the reply!