Top 7 Logging and Analytics Platforms 2021

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Any good DevOps team can tell you that observability is key to troubleshooting and system health. If you don’t have good metrics, you’re done — essentially flying at night with no radar in the mountains not an ideal situation. I’ve put together a list of the top logging tools used by DevOps teams and their features to clarify use case, implementation and overall fit. They are in no particular order. You may have heard about one or more of these tools and weren’t sure of the implementation. This guide should help answer a few of those questions. If you need help implementing one or more of these tools, Please contact — Advantis Data Services.

New Relic One — Single source of truth.

• 300+ agents and integrations, including OpenTelemetry, so you can ingest and store all of your operational data, including logs, in one place
• Fast Response Time
• New Relic One + Grafana Dashboards
• Real-time alerting
• Custom apps built on product APIs and components.

Datadog — Modern Monitoring & Security

• Cross System and Application Monitoring
• Automation tools — to help make implementation easier
• Monitoring and instrumentation — Systems and Applications
• Source control and bug tracking
• Databases and common server components
• All listed integrations are supported by Datadog

Dynatrace — observability, automation, and intelligence

• Instant Observability: metrics, logs, traces, ux, vulnerability, etc.
• Continuous Automation: deploy, configure, discovery, topology, updates.
• AI Assistance: proactive problem resolution — performance.
• Cross Team Collaboration: single source of truth — Dev, Sec and Ops
• UX — Business Analytics: User experience to Biz KPI’s

Solarwinds — Broad System Analytics focused on Network, Systems

• Network Management
• System Management
• IT Security
• Database Management
• IT Service Management
• Application Management
• Managed Service Providers

Amazon — Cloud Watch

• Monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers
• Observability on a single platform across apps and infra.
• Fairly easy way to collect metrics on AWS
• Improve Ops performance and resource optimization
• Operational Visibility and Insight
• Drive actionable insights from Logs

Elastic — Search, Observability, Security

• ELK Stack : Fast reliable search to all operational data
• App Search, Site Search, Workplace Search
• Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime
• SIEM: Threat detection, response, anti-malware, ransomeware
• Answer hard questions at scale, Drive real insights

Splunk — Analytics Power, enterprise grade, observability

• IT Operations: Top rated SIEM and Operation platform
• Cyber Security: Ranked Leader in Magic Quadrant last seven years.
• Observability: Unified metrics, logs, traces, alerts and more.
• Everything: Literally, You can analyze almost everything in splunk.

Honorable Mentions — Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana.