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Loggly, a startup that helps developers manage web applications by aggregating and searching server logs, has raised a $500,000 first round of funding from True Ventures.
The San Francisco company is still building a prototype, but it describes its service as a simple, intuitive web-based user interface that allows developers to search through large numbers of log files from multiple applications. The idea is to provide greater transparency into how your applications are performing, and to identify exactly what’s happening when things go wrong.
The Loggly team already has some experience providing these kinds of features, since two of its three co-founders come from Splunk, which offers an engine for IT managers to search for problems in the log files of their company networks.
Loggly actually announced the funding on its blog back in December, but the tech press didn’t seem to notice until the deal was revealed in a regulatory filing today.
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Update:Here’s how chief executive Kord Campbell described the difference between Splunk and Loggly:
We are a hosted solution compared to Splunk’s enterprise software download. Instead of installing your own server, downloading the code, and forwarding logs to that server, you just send them to our system. We run all the servers, storage, code, etc. for you, making life easier in the process. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper too.
We’re leveraging a bunch of Open Source technologies to leap ahead in the search portions of our offering, which makes us more nimble than Splunk. We’re focused on web app developers (like us) initially, providing development and monitoring features for them to maintain their code and systems. Later on we’ll branch out into security, compliance, and analytics.
When it comes to analytics, we’ll be able to use the search system we’ve built to pull data from a customer’s logs, then run a map reduce algorithm on them to crank out statistics on the data. For lots of data. Think of it as a flip side to Google Analytics. They take the log entries from browsers hitting your site – we take the entries from the hits to your server directly, through its logs.
Campbell also noted that while he and co-founder Raffael Marty worked on Splunk, they didn’t work on any of the search code, so there’s no intellectual property conflict.
