SolarWinds Papertrail
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Plans and prices
From SolarWinds Papertrail's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Log Observability | $5 a month | Scalable, full stack, multi-source log management · Unlimited systems & users · Logs can stop at the limit or continue as usage-based service up to 200% extra at 30% higher price per GB · Per GB per month* |
The facts
Each one read from SolarWinds Papertrail's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Customizable log groups let administrators restrict access to selected servers, applications, regions, or environments and set user permissions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Alerts
- Saved searches can become scheduled alerts, including inactivity alerts for events that do not occur as expected.checked 11 Oct 2026
- API
- The plans page lists a REST API among the included product capabilities.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Archives
- Papertrail says it stores up to a year of log events for retrieval and supports downloading archives as TSV files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- cloudchecked 24 Sep 2026
- Encryption
- Papertrail says logs are encrypted in transit and archived with Amazon S3 built-in AES-256 encryption.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Ingestion
- Papertrail supports sending logs using syslog or forwarding plain-text files with its standalone remote_syslog2 daemon.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Alert notifications can be sent through Slack, PagerDuty, Campfire, email, or custom HTTP webhooks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limit behavior
- At a plan limit, logs can stop or continue as a usage-based service up to 200% extra at a 30% higher price per GB, and customers are notified.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Paid from
- 5checked 24 Sep 2026
- Product
- Papertrail aggregates logs from applications, services, infrastructure, databases, network devices, and platforms into a cloud-delivered solution.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Search and live tail
- Users can view, search, and tail log events in real time through a single interface.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Support
- The pricing FAQ directs customers to email [email protected] and says support is available when the team is awake.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2011checked 19 Oct 2026
Money
- Trial
- The website offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required and 100 GB of usage during the trial.checked 11 Oct 2026
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