BunnyLogs vs Papertrail

The verdict

Papertrail is a solid, battle-tested syslog aggregator. BunnyLogs beats it on ingestion breadth — email and WhatsApp let you centralise cron, monitoring alerts, and mobile notifications without installing an agent or changing your syslog config.

Why developers choose BunnyLogs

Email ingestion

Papertrail requires a syslog sender or app agent. BunnyLogs accepts raw email — your cron MAILTO, Nagios alerts, and Zabbix notifications just work.

UUID stream sharing

Share a log stream by sending anyone the URL. No account required to view. Papertrail requires a login for every viewer.

EU-hosted by default

BunnyLogs stores all data exclusively in the EU. Papertrail (owned by SolarWinds) is US-hosted with no EU data residency guarantee.

Where Papertrail has the edge

Long track record — battle-tested reliability since 2010
Syslog UDP/TCP ingest with native rsyslog/syslog-ng support
Team management and access controls on paid plans

Papertrail pricing

Free tier: 50 MB/month, 48-hour search

Paid: $7/month (1 GB, 1-week search)

BunnyLogs pricing

Free tier: 100 KB/month — no credit card

Paid: €5 per started GB — no seat fees, no minimum

Feature comparison

Feature	BunnyLogs	Papertrail
Real-time streaming	WebSocket, <1 s	Live tail (polling)
Free tier	100 KB/month	50 MB/month, 48 h search
HTTP POST ingestion		Syslog/agent only
Email ingestion		Not supported
Telegram / WhatsApp		Not supported
No-login shareable stream	Share by UUID URL	Login required
EU data residency	EU-only	US-hosted (SolarWinds)
Agent required		Agent for most setups
30-day log search	All plans	7 days on $7 plan
Simple per-GB pricing	€5/started GB	Volume + retention tiers

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