Get More Insights with Integrated Logging & Code Profiling

Centralized Logging

Access all of your application logs from a single place across all applications and servers

Integrated Errors + Logs

Get the full context about errors that show up in your logs

Structured Logging

Make your logging smarter by logging objects and searchable properties

Going Beyond Logs: Correlating Logs, Errors & APM Data

Troubleshooting application problems is easy when you can correlate all of your data together!

Go from a Log Statement to Full Transaction Trace

Retrace integrates log management with its APM code profiling functionality.

Get incredibly detailed transaction traces for your applications.
The traces includes log statement, errors, SQL queries executed, external HTTP web service calls.

Get More Intelligence About the Errors in Your Logs

Get all the details you wish your logs had with no code changes. Retrace automatically collects the details you need to quickly troubleshoot application errors.

Web request details
Full stack trace
Related log messages

Shipping Your Logs to Retrace is Easy

Retrace supports common logging frameworks for most programming languages. A simple configuration change is all that is needed.

Programming language specific libraries
Web server logs
Syslog
Windows Events

Logging libraries for many other languages are also supported in addition to our REST API.

Java

Retrace supports Java logs via logback, log4j, or our Java SDK.

Example configuration for log4j:

<appender name="Stackify" class="com.stackify.log.log4j12.StackifyLogAppender">
    <param name="apiKey" value="YOUR_ACTIVATION_KEY"/>
</appender>
<root>
    <appender-ref ref="Stackify" />
</root>

.NET

Retrace supports .NET logs via log4net, NLog, Serilog, or our .NET SDK.

Example configuration for log4net:

<log4net>
   <root>
      <level value="DEBUG" />
      <appender-ref ref="StackifyAppender" />
   </root>
   <appender name="StackifyAppender" type="StackifyLib.log4net.StackifyAppender, StackifyLib.log4net" />
</log4net>

PHP

Retrace supports PHP logs via Monolog, log4php and Syslog.

View PHP logging documentation

Node.js

Retrace supports Node.js logs via Winston.

View Node.js logging documentation

Ruby

Retrace supports Ruby logs via the Rails logger.

View Ruby logging documentation

Python

View Python Logging documentation.

Top Centralized Logging Features

Advanced Searching and Filtering

Full text searching is available for your log messages as well as filtering on any fields captured. Several quick filters are easily accessible for things like app name, environment, server name, log type, and log levels.

Enhanced Log Viewing

Perhaps the most low tech feature, but one of the most helpful.

Real-time Log Tailing

Trying to troubleshoot something in production? Use Retrace to search and filter for exactly what you are looking for and then turn on tailing mode. The log viewer will automatically update with new logs.

Structured Logging

Go beyond saving a basic log message to separating out key data, in a structured way, that can be useful for searching and log analysis. It doesn’t really take any more time to do and can enable an amazing amount of functionality from your log data.

Log.Debug("Test model object", new {test=”Hello World”, testInt=100, testBool = true});

Use Tagging in Your Logs #awesomesauce

All you have to do is put a # in your logs and Retrace will take care of the rest.

View Where Your Logs Came from in Your Code

Some logging frameworks can track and report where the log messages originated from in your code. Being able to track where your logs come from can be very valuable for tracking down bugs.

Explore All of Your Logging Fields

Retrace has many built-in fields for basic server info, errors, web logs, and Windows events. The field explorer makes it easy to see all the fields that exist and add them to log viewer for display.

Get Analytics from Your Logs

For every field you can track every how often specific values are being logged. This is especially useful for a simple example like a type of error.

Monitor Your Logs

Search your logs for exactly what you are trying to find and save it within Retrace. You can then setup a monitor to run this query every few minutes and alert you if it finds a certain amount of results.

If your app logs a certain message that is really important for you to be aware of, this is an invaluable feature!