IBM Log Analysis vs Sematext Logs comparison

Sematext Logs is a cloud-based SaaS log management solution that offers you real-time actionable insights into your log analytics with hosted ELK as a service, in the cloud or on-premises. Logs can be aggregated from a variety of sources using it because it's compatible with a large number of log shippers, libraries, platforms, and frameworks. Sematext’s auto-discovery of logs and services lets you automatically start log monitoring from both log files and containers and forward them directly through the user interface. Sematext Logs features sophisticated full-text searching, filtering, and tagging capabilities and allows you to correlate logs with infrastructure and application metrics within a single dashboard.

Sematext Logs Benefits

• Centralized logging
  With Sematext Logs, you can store and aggregate logs from all your data sources, including servers, infrastructure, apps, databases, containers, and systems, in a central location.

• Hosted ELK as a service
  Using Sematext Logs, you will benefit from an Elasticsearch API and Kibana in the cloud without having to manage the infrastructure or pay for expensive consultants. Select a log shipper that works for you - Logstash, Filebeat, rsyslog, Logagent, etc. Analyze logs, and correlate them with infrastructure and application metrics.
  
  
• Alerting on Logs
  Embrace the simplicity and ease of troubleshooting with our metric and log alerts, so you can concentrate on such matters as working on other projects or getting other work done. Sematext analyzes logs for optimal health when detecting anomalies, so you don't have to worry about those things.
  
  
• Log security
  Utilize a centralized log management service to maintain security and compliance for cloud-native applications. AWS runs Sematext Logs, whose infrastructure follows IT security best practices and adheres to a variety of compliance standards such as SOC 1/SSAE, SOC 2, SOC 3,16/ISAE 3402 (formerly SAS 70 Type II), FISMA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, and HIPAA.
  
  
• Powerful Searching and Filtering
  Using fast and intuitive search tools, you can search, filter, and analyze log data to identify and fix issues before they affect your business and prevent them from getting worse.
  
  
• Saved Searches & Log Taggings
  Rerun recent and saved searches without typing them again. Save any query as Saved Search or Alert Query. Run Live Tail for any Saved Search. Autocomplete recent and saved searches. Tag Saved Searches with custom labels and colors. See log charts for Saved Searches at a glance, without running them.
  
  
• 100+ integrations
  Use any of the compatible log shippers, logging libraries, platforms, and frameworks to make the most out of your logs. Supports all standard logging facilities and agents, ships logs via Syslog, ship from apps via Log4j, Logback, Log4j 2, Log4net, Winston, Python SyslogHandler... Supports Java, PHP, Perl, GoLang, Python, .NET, Ruby, and JavaScript. Ship with anything that can talk to Elasticsearch or Syslog.

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Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Logs

• Integration with other Sematext Cloud components, such as Infrastructure Monitoring, Synthetics, and Experience. For example, you can have dashboards with widgets from any component, so you can see which error caused that CPU spike
• Spike-friendly pricing. Ingestion is averaged out and calculated on top of the “base” plan. For example, if you have the cheapest paid plan ($50/month, supports 1GB/day) and send 60GB in a month (2GB per day, on average), you end up paying $100
• Configurable overage – you can choose when Sematext stops accepting logs, to control your cost
• Per-silo pricing. You can create multiple “apps”, for example, Production and QA. Each can have its own plan (volume, retention) and overage configuration
• Agent-free: any log shipper or library that works with syslog or Elasticsearch will work with Sematext Logs
• Elasticsearch API access beyond indexing: you can run searches, export data, create custom templates, and more
• Extra features on top of the ELK stack are available, such as role-based access control, alerting, and anomaly detection

Where to go from here?

Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. We offer both free and paid plans. Our commercial plan starts at $50 per GB per day for 7-day retention and you can try it free for 14 days. The free plan includes 500 MB per day.