I'm a bit confused by the loggly pricing page, who is their target audience?
The plans are too expensive for hobbyists but at the same time too limiting for even a smallish site (2G/day is tiny, and that's for $399/mo!).
I'm especially wary of the latter part, as that means you'd probably have to migrate away from loggly once your site becomes successful. For a medium-sized site it's not uncommon to push upwards of 1G of logs per hour, and that's just 3-4 webservers doing their duty.
My feeling is they should tech-pivot asap here and turn this into an appliance or software-download (like splunk and most of the other competitors).
There is a free forever account. We've got about 500 active users and I'm not hearing from them the volumes you are throwing out here. From our experiences at Splunk we know volumes vary widely though, and we'll probably need a custom quote widget for high volume, low retention peeps.
Appliances are expensive to market and sell. We know this space pretty well, and I'm sure we are on the right track staying focused on saasing it.
We're ex-Splunk, and can tell you it's a pretty expensive solution if you end up buying it. The free version of Splunk is nice, but you still have to provision a server to run it on.
We are planning providing filtering to Loggly with Jordan's Logstash project: http://code.google.com/p/logstash/ If anyone is interested in helping we'd love to have you.
I just started using loggly for some node apps I have running. It was a complete random find but I'm really happy to be using it. I started out by setting up logrotate, but then I only have access if I ssh into my server. This is much more portable, like if I want to move a node app over to a different setup like dotcloud.
This service is a great idea, although a bit pricey. Additionally - a $99/month plan that doesn't support HTTPS seems a bit rude. Especially when most developers probably consider their log data sensitive, to some degree. Find a different feature to up-sell on.
Also, no on-premise option?
Anyone tried Graylog2 [free]
"Graylog2 is an open source syslog implementation that stores your logs in MongoDB. It consists of a server written in Java that accepts your syslog messages via TCP or UDP and stores it in the database. The second part is a Ruby on Rails web interface that allows you to view the log messages."
The woodpecker plan supports HTTPS, just not TLS. We need to clarify that. See my quote above regarding pricing. We definitely need to figure out some other pricing knobs.
The plans are too expensive for hobbyists but at the same time too limiting for even a smallish site (2G/day is tiny, and that's for $399/mo!).
I'm especially wary of the latter part, as that means you'd probably have to migrate away from loggly once your site becomes successful. For a medium-sized site it's not uncommon to push upwards of 1G of logs per hour, and that's just 3-4 webservers doing their duty.
My feeling is they should tech-pivot asap here and turn this into an appliance or software-download (like splunk and most of the other competitors).