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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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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 ;)
Ben Halpern
We use Timber at https://dev.to and are quite happy with it so far. It's finding its way into our workflow more and more, and I could see it actually replacing a lot of independent dashboards in a really natural way. Great job Timber folks!
Sebastian Dobrincu

Coming from a heavy Loggly user, this is an amazing execution. Makes cloud logging super straight-forward along with powerful filtering options. I'll keep playing with it some more, but so far it looks very solid.

Pros:

Beautiful interface, seamless installation, responsive support.

Cons:

I just found it out

Zach Sherman
Maker
Hey PH! This has been a long time coming, but we're incredibly excited to be releasing Timber to the community today. Logging has always been a major headache for us as developers, and we've been obsessed with creating an unparalleled developer experience that makes setting them up a breeze. Timber's simple drop in packages for Ruby, Elixir and Node can be set up with one command, and automatically format, structure and ship your logs to the service. They also add additional context along the way like the current user, HTTP request information, exceptions, and much more. We're really hoping that you all enjoy it and it makes your lives as developers that much easier, don't hesitate to reach out to us with feedback or comments 🌲.
Derek Brown

We've been using Timber in production for a while now at Exeq, and it's been mission critical to us. Having consolidated, searchable logging across our (5+) systems has been awesome. Love working with their team as well; they love feedback and take it very well. Their alerting is actually too verbose for our needs at times, but configurability is coming! Would highly recommend.

Pros:

Design, usability, ease of implementation, speed of team.

Cons:

Alerting, it exists but can be better...but having read future specs, there's a lot in the works that makes me excited!

Michael Waxman

If you use Rails+Heroku (or any of the other stacks they have special integrations for) I'd highly recommend it, as there are a bunch of convenient features you get out of the box, like being able to easily query the logs of a specific user, etc

Pros:

Brilliant, easy-to-use logging (and-then-some) in a beautiful, intuitive UI. Lots of useful, developer-friendly features that "just work."

Cons:

That it's only coming out now!

Robert Rawlins
We switched to Timber a few weeks back and I have been really impressed with everything I've seen, the product is fantastic and the folks behind it do a wonderful job of providing personal, friendly support. Congrats on the launch folks, I wish you all the best!
Jonathan Grana

Switched over to timber months ago and it's been awesome to work in. Navigating to different times and filtering is really easy compared to Papertrail.

Pros:

- Incredibly easy on-boarding

- Out of the box context for Elixir and Ruby apps

- Interface is very intuitive and searches are near instant

Cons:

- Alerting can be improved by including loglines and more customization, but these are on the roadmap

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.
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.

Shlomo Dalezman

This isn't really a con, but their ruby/elixir library allows you to attach user context data to logs and I would love to be able to easily do that in my Python + Go apps. Otherwise love the service - have used a bunch of different logging service in the past and this by far one of the easier to use services

Pros:

Beautiful interface, really expressive search

Cons:

Wish i could dismiss specific subsets of alerts

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.
Eric Friedman
Big day! Excited this is out there and more people can use it.
Ben
@ericfriedman When you find great products like this, feel free to share with the teams around you :P
Barak Kaufman

Timber has been core to our infrastructure since day 1. It's drastically better and easier to use than the competition. I highly recommend you give it a try, you won't regret it!

Pros:

Amazing product from a stellar team! It was the first SaaS product we started using with Intello and have benefited tremendously from it.

Cons:

Slack alerts are a newish features, but really no complaints

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

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
Lenart Rudel
It seems like an abandoned project. No support, unreliable search results. Otherwise great looking dash and I love support for structure logging.
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)

gazzer82
Any plans for go support?
Zach Sherman
Maker
@gazzer82 yes! It's currently one of our most requested languages and our go package is actively being worked on. We also have a go agent you can use to ship logs from anywhere https://github.com/timberio/agent.
Jamie Perkins
aw man, I thought this was a web implementation of timberman