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collectd vs Papertrail

A side-by-side look at collectd and Papertrail. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

collectd

collectd

System & Hardware

collectd is an open source system statistics collection daemon. It collects system performance statistics periodically and provides methods to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

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Papertrail

Papertrail

Network & Admin

Papertrail is a cloud-based log management service that aggregates and archives log data in real-time. It allows developers and IT teams to easily search, analyze, and set alerts on application and system logs.

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