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Zach Sherman

Timber.io - Log better. Solve problems faster.

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Timber.io is a cloud based logging platform, specifically engineered for Ruby, Elixir and Node apps. It automatically structures your log data with it's open source packages, makes the lines readable, adds valuable context, and lets you easily create graphs and alerts from your logs.

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Hrant
Incredibely better than other similar products! Love it :)
Edvins Antonovs
Decent UI, I like it
Eric Berry

I've used Timber.io on CodeSponsor.io for a couple of months and have loved it. It is very easy to see real-time what is happening in the app and apply filters.

Pros:

My favorite part was the installation process. So much thought was put into making this experience seamless. Huge kudos to the team!

Cons:

No cons that I can see so far.

Logan Donley
Gotta give you props on a beautifully designed website. It is smooth, has good typography, a good aesthetic, even the docs look good.
Steven Lu
Great work! Timber's team forgets to state one thing over all their other features is that their search is so f'ing fast (about 20x faster than Papertrail). One of the reasons why I can't see myself using any other log service.
Brittany Fuller
Congrats on the launch!! 🚀
John Hamelink

I've been using timber for a while now, on a bunch of elixir apps I've been writing in 2017. I must say it's the best experience I've had with any 3rd party logging system. I love the context functionality which can be used to group together log events in order to identify patterns quicker.

Whenever I've had a problem, David at Timber has always been there to help and is very responsive!

A handy tip: I use sentry.io for error reporting. The first thing I do when I see a sentry error pop up is:

- Copy the sentry error ID

- Paste it into timber's search bar for offending the application

- Find the sentry log message "Sending error <blah> to sentry.io" or something similar

- Click on the timestamp to see what happened around that log entry

A simple way to quickly get more context that sentry would never be able to provide.

Pros:

Beautiful interface, easy to setup, amazing support

Cons:

A little light on 3rd party integrations

David Richey

Before finding Timber.io I used to debug by other means and if that didn't work, I would ssh into the server logs because other log aggregation tools were too much overhead to setup. Needless to say I am very happy to have found Timber

Pros:

Ease of setup, great ui

Cons:

Want to be able to ignore sending certain logs (healthchecks, rollbar logs)

Martin Wong
This looks pretty cool. I've been searching for a logging solution so the timing is great! How is this different from something like Datadog?
Ben Johnson
Maker
@landland, great question! Datadog stores aggregates (time unit summarizations) of your data instead of individual events. The caveat is that aggregates sacrifice detail for efficiency, which is great for detecting trends but can discard the very data needed to resolve problems! Timber is the inverse, storing every event with context and structured data. Aggregates are then derived from this data. This way, when you identify a problem, you'll have the ability to zoom in and obtain the detail necessary to resolve it. Also, Timber and Datadog are not mutually exclusive. We have customers that happily use both. Timber's structured data makes it easy to jump from a Datadog graph into the actual log events. I hope that helps. Happy to answer any other questions. PS - We're working on graphs and dashboards ;)
Bernd Strehl
Seems like a great product, but seems to be dead. No support in a week and some stuff isn't working. Too sad
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