Easy-to-drive interface. If the interface is hard to drive or too slow - users will not use the product. Scalyr is both easy to use and blindingly fast query results. The ability to ingest almost any kind of formatted data logs is awesome. As a security manager, I am often investigating logs and looking for patterns. Scalyr's dynamic graphs allows me to see volumes of traffic over time - saving me time.

Quick, easy, log analyzing. On top of that simple server monitoring.

We use Scalyr to power almost all of our analysis, monitoring, and forensics in engineering. The only three tools my team absolutely cannot live without are AWS, Slack and Scalyr. At this point I think a centralized log management tool is an absolute must-have for running in the cloud, and Scalyr is a great solution because it is inexpensive, easy to set up and low-maintenance compared to Kibana or open-source tools. Deploying the agents to our servers was simple and I particularly like that that Scalyr also tracks system data (CPU, Memory, etc.) and statsd information so we don't need a second tool like m/monit or DataDog. It has been easy to get all of the engineers to adopt Scalyr and build dashboards and alerts for Slack and PagerDuty. It's been absolutely reliable in the last 3 years and it costs a fraction of what Splunk or SumoLogic charge. Support has always been immediate and helpful in the cases where we hit a bug.