This white paper examines and compares two solutions to log management - traditional on-premise log management managed in-house by the infrastructure team and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or on-demand, log management solution, which moves the infrastructure footprint for log management to a physically and organizationally separate company. By examining each element of log management and comparing on-premise and on-demand, it will be clear that a SaaS solution for log management is more efficient, effective and costs less to own than a traditional on-premise solution.