I am currently using logdna as my splunk alternative, but it's not very good.
Why should I try scalyr next, over the other alternatives ?
My main constraint is the solution should be at least half as good as splunk, and cost less than $50 a month (I generate less than 1G a day).
Your pricing seems to be reasonable. But how do you compare to splunk on features ?
Here are the other tools I am considering trying
You can find a more general overview at https://scalyr.com/product.
Seems like you guys fit the bill. I'll do the 30 day trial, and see how it goes. Thanks for the response.
Steve says elsewhere in the thread that Splunk has the more-flexible query language, and while that may be true I as a product engineer never noticed the delta myself.
TL;DR I think you'd be doing yourself a favor to try Scalyr, and I have no affiliation other than being a happy former customer.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders. We built it to be a Splunk alternative and I think it does a great job from a data ingest, scalability, and data querying perspective. We're lacking some of the out-of-the-box capability, but not for long. Kits (our "apps") release is coming this quarter.