Logentries

Logentriesis a software as a service provider for log management and intelligence, based in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. Logentries collects and analyzes data found within log files, in real-time with a cloud-delivered approach. Logentries has more than 25,000 users.

History

Logentries was founded in 2010 in Dublin, Ireland by Viliam Holub and Trevor Parsons. Holub and Parsons worked together for over ten years at University College Dublin's Performance Engineering Laboratory, where they partnered with IBM to focus their research on root cause analysis of common performance and IT issues. The Logentries service was built on the technology stemming from this academic research. In October 2013, Logentries named Andrew Burton as CEO and President. At the same time, Logentries announced $10 million in Series-A funding from venture partners including Polaris Partners, Floodgate, Frontline Ventures and RRE Ventures.

Technology

The Logentries technology securely collects and analyzes logs across software stacks using a pre-processing layer to filter, correlate, and visualize log data. The Logentries service provides real-time alerting through email, mobile devices and integrations with other platforms like PagerDuty and HipChat.

Logentries is compatible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Heroku, Engine Yard Microsoft Windows Azure. The service also supports common programming frameworks and languages, including Ruby, Node, Java, .NET, and Python.

Awards

Logentries received the NovaUCD 2013 Innovation Award in recognition of its global success and impact on making log management and analytics accessible to users beyond the technical team.

Leadership

• Andrew Burton, CEO
• Trevor Parsons, Founder and Chief Scientist
• Viliam Holub, Founder and CTO
• Brendan Dillon, VP of Engineering
• Leigh Merrigan Moore, VP of Marketing

See Also

• Sumo Logic
• Splunk
• Loggly