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.
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).