Sematex has become increasingly essential in our tool set. It goes far beyond a simple log manager, delivering valuable information from this huge amount of data.
Pros
Sematex has impressed us in recent months for its ability to deliver robust tools for analyzing and mining the information present in our logs. Through its customizable Dashboards, we can analyze very important statistics both to characterize the behavior of our users and to help us identify problems in our code.
Cons
The experience of using the Sematex interface has improved a lot, but it is not always so intuitive to find the resources we want. Reading the logs is also not as clean as I would like to see.
Thanks for your feedback Guilherme! I'm really happy you like the product. If there is any more feedback you'd like to share regarding the Sematext user interface and experience, I'm happy to listen. Thanks again for your time.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 9/10
I used this to manage my infra and this has really helped me a lot to understand the usage pattern of the app and also helps in safely predicting when the load will be high and when it will be low. Finding out memory leaks for JVM has also been very easy when I was trying to get insights about GC and JVM pool.
Pros
- Very detailed reports
- Installing an agent happens in a jiffy
- Very intuitive UI
- Good support from the Sematext team
Cons
- Documentation missing for old agents - Ubuntu < 16
- Agent once crashed - cause is still unknown!
Hey Debodirno! Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. If there's anything else we can help you with, feel free to reach out!
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 8/10
Satisfied but need more time to evaluate
Pros
I just switch from ELK. Sematext is a surprise to me. It is so easy to integrate and so easy to use. The web UI is so intuitive and the query syntax is so easy to use even if you are not a technical guy. Compared to ELK, it is a real cloud service, you never need to worry about you lose the logs .
Cons
I haven’t found so far. Only thing is the price is a little bit high for a standup.
Hey Chao! Thanks a lot for your feedback. If you ever have any questions regarding how to manage your pricing and keep costs optimized, feel free to reach out to our team in the Sematext live chat.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 3/10
We have been monitoring a fleet of IoT devices with Sematext. Using it we can quickly send data from the devices and analyze it later, making feature development faster and debugging way easier.
Pros
Easy to use and extremely fast to filter log data.
Ready-to-use Java and Android libraries made integration a very fast process.
Main UI is very similar to Kibana, and it also provides the full experience if you need it.
Fast and knowledgeable tech support.
Cons
There are rare instances where the UI becomes unresponsive or slow.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
Sematext is a proven and reliable offering, without a single outage I can recall in the past 2.5 years. The customer support is amazing and queries are answered without fail within a couple of hours. They are constantly working on the product and increasing their offerings. They offer customers the chance to trial new products and give feedback, which is fantastic. We use Sematext for: * Log Aggregation * Monitoring and Alerting * Incident Investigation * Log Retention * Debugging I love how we can easily set up alerts on logs and receive Slack or OpsGenie notifications when events occur. I would highly recommend Sematext as a vendor.
Pros
* Super Reliable
* Excellent Customer Support
* Constantly Adding Features
* Constantly Improving
Cons
There are very few things not to like about this software and company.
The way accounts are set up, where you have to log in then "become" the account owner to see your logs is strange, and needs to be explained to each new user.
Hey! Thanks a lot for your feedback regarding the RBAC. We've worked on several improvements in the way you can configure account permissions for every member of a team. Feedback like this help us a lot to understand what should be improved. Thanks again!
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 8/10
Sematext Cloud offers a 14-day free trial, after which the software is available based on selected modules, as outlined below:
Logs:
• Basic - Available for free
• Standard - $50 per month
• Pro - $60 per month
Monitoring:
Container monitoring:
• Basic - Available for free
• Standard - $0.007 per container per hour
• Pro - $0.011 per container per hour
App & Server monitoring:
• Basic - Available for free
• Standard - $0.035 per agent per hour
• Pro - $0.070 per agent per hour
Experience:
• Startup - $9 per month
• Standard - $19 per month
• Pro - $89 per month
Synthetics:
• Pay-as-you-go - $5 per month
• Standard - $29 per month
• Pro - $99 per month