| Company | Loggly |
| Address | 251 Kearny St 8th Floor San Francisco, CA, 94105 USA |
| Founders | Jon Gifford & Kord Campbell |
| Founded | September 2009 |
| Funding | $ 10.4 million |
| Employees | 15 |
| Website | www.Loggly.com |
| Rating | 5 bits |
Loggly is a cloud-based log management system that allows user to monitor, debug and troubleshoot their business processes, IT infrastructure and applications. The solution offers also a data analysis in order to better understand what is going on in your organizations processes. Loggly les you upload any log file from any device or process. It will aggregate it, index it and make it available for analysis. It can be used for troubleshooting and understanding your customers usage of your product/service. All log files are combined into the dashboard, so that user do not have to go through separate log files to find information.
If you want, you can set events and alerts to keep track from what is going on. Also any devices that send log files to the cloud can give alerts if necessary via Loggly. The dashboard shows interactive graphs that help to better understand what is going on. In order to work effectively with it, you need to be familiar with the Shell Environment and to know certain commands to work around your log files.
In contrast to most of the log file management startups around, Loggly works completely from the cloud and it is not necessary to install any hardware or software, which is a good advantage if you do not want to buy specialized hardware for it. It can scale with your needs and you pay as you need on a monthly basis. At the moment, Loggly has around 2.500 customers and these include some of the big names such as AirBnB, BBC and EA.
Loggly performs its log analysis in real-time and it relies on open source tools to do this. They work with a combination of Hadoop for background processing and they use Lucene for much of the analysis they perform and it uses MongoDB to store the analysis
Loggly, which was co-founded by ex-Splunker Kord Campbell and Jon Gifford. It is a direct competitor of Splunk regarding log files. Splunk went public in April 2012 and valued at $ 3.2 billion. They have no patents (pending) and no awards won yet. Analysing log files gives organisations a lot of information and can help them notice errors before the customer does, resulting in a better service. BigData-Startups.com believes Loggly definitely has potential for the coming years and therefore gives them a 5 bits rating.
