Trust online services?
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@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
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@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
And limited to just two servers!
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What do you use for log management?
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@johnhooks said:
What do you use for log management?
ELK
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With the ELK setup, are you able to age records out automatically, so that everything older than say.. 1 month automatically gets purged?
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@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
Not really a free product then, just a free trial.
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Thanks @scottalanmiller , I don't know how I miss stuff like that.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
Not really a free product then, just a free trial.
It's really free, not a trial. Two servers with a shorter than usual retention. That's still a full and quite usable product if you have need to look at just two servers. The three day retention is not a big deal, it's still very functional for monitoring and troubleshooting. A bit useless for long term capacity planning.
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@thecreativeone91 You also get monitoring with it. Realtime, and a daily digest of every event (that crosses a threshold).
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
Not really a free product then, just a free trial.
It's really free, not a trial. Two servers with a shorter than usual retention. That's still a full and quite usable product if you have need to look at just two servers. The three day retention is not a big deal, it's still very functional for monitoring and troubleshooting. A bit useless for long term capacity planning.
It's still just a trial version of their fully featured product.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
Not really a free product then, just a free trial.
It's really free, not a trial. Two servers with a shorter than usual retention. That's still a full and quite usable product if you have need to look at just two servers. The three day retention is not a big deal, it's still very functional for monitoring and troubleshooting. A bit useless for long term capacity planning.
It's still just a trial version of their fully featured product.
What makes it a trial vs a free version, in your mind?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
It's still just a trial version of their fully featured product.
But it has all of the features, no part of it is a trial.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
It's still just a trial version of their fully featured product.
Do you consider all the ones that you pay for, short of the "Unlimited" top end one, to be trials as well? If not, what's the difference? They are all limited in similar ways to the top end one.
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Looks a bit like CopperEgg. Nice service, small companies tend to balk at the cost, though.
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@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
Not really a free product then, just a free trial.
It's really free, not a trial. Two servers with a shorter than usual retention. That's still a full and quite usable product if you have need to look at just two servers. The three day retention is not a big deal, it's still very functional for monitoring and troubleshooting. A bit useless for long term capacity planning.
It's still just a trial version of their fully featured product.
What makes it a trial vs a free version, in your mind?
Because it's just a trial version to get you into buying their other pay for version. It's not a stand alone fully feature free version that they only offer as free.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Because it's just a trial version to get you into buying their other pay for version. It's not a stand alone fully feature free version that they only offer as free.
But it is not a trial. No part of it is trialed. It IS stand alone and fully featured.
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What feature is missing that we aren't aware of? I didn't see any functionality not there.
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Even if it was missing features, that's still not what trial means. Trial means you get something to test it and then lose it. Every feature that you get with the free version you get to keep, forever (in theory.) Nothing trial about it.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@johnhooks said:
@thecreativeone91 they do have a free version. It's limited to around 2-3 days for log history though.
Not really a free product then, just a free trial.
It's really free, not a trial. Two servers with a shorter than usual retention. That's still a full and quite usable product if you have need to look at just two servers. The three day retention is not a big deal, it's still very functional for monitoring and troubleshooting. A bit useless for long term capacity planning.
It's still just a trial version of their fully featured product.
What makes it a trial vs a free version, in your mind?
Because it's just a trial version to get you into buying their other pay for version. It's not a stand alone fully feature free version that they only offer as free.
I haven't actually read the offerings - but according to @scottalanmiller it does have all of the features of the paid version, only it's limited to 2 days of logs and 2 servers.
As Scott mentioned, this is no different that solutions that have graduated pay levels. Heck, in that case SQL Standard vs SQL Enterprise - you could argue Standard is a trial version of Enterprise edition because it's missing components of Enterprise, but I think we'd all agree that Standard is no trial.
