Documentation forAppOptics

Papertrail

Papertrail provides hosted log aggregation and management, including real-time tail, search, and Heroku-optimized alerts on application and platform logs. Papertrail is a member of the SolarWinds family. With this integration you can send the result of saved searches (e.g. count of errors) on a pre-defined interval to AppOptics so that you can graph the trend.

We assume you have a Papertrail account and you have already set up and saved some searches. You can associate searches with services such as AppOptics. Start by editing the search:

papertrail-edit-search

On the Search page you can add a new Alert. The "Choose a Service" page lists all the services that Papertrail supports. Choose "AppOptics" under "Graphing & Metrics". The AppOptics Alert Configuration page requires you to enter an AppOptics API token which you can find or create on your Org settings page. We recommend you create a record-only (write-only) token for Papertrail metrics. Paste the token into the appropriate field and select a metric name.

papertrail-edit-alert

Select the frequency. If you choose "1 minute" the number of events that happened in each minute are summed and sent to AppOptics.

The metric name must be URI-safe: only contain alphanumeric characters, periods, hyphens, underscores, or colons.

All the saved searches show up under the Alerts menu.

papertrail-alerts

After configuring Papertrail head over to AppOptics and search the metric list for the newly created metrics. Keep in mind that they will only show up if a search result detected events and they were posted to our API.

papertrail-metrics

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