BOSH vs Logstash

BOSH

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. (by cloudfoundry)

DevOps Tools

Source Code

bosh.io

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Logstash

Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data (by elastic)

DevOps Tools etl-framework Streaming Logging Java Jruby real-time-processing

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elastic.co

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BOSH		Logstash
	Project
-	Mentions	5
2,021	Stars	14,006
0.1%	Growth	0.7%
9.3	Activity	9.6
5 days ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Ruby	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

BOSH

Posts with mentions or reviews of BOSH. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning BOSH yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Logstash

Posts with mentions or reviews of Logstash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

Simple way to centralize my server logs?
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Jan 2023

There are probably too many to chose from. Logstash, Promtail, Vector, Filebeat, FluentD, Logagent and probably many more
Help with parsing log in logstash into uniqe lines
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 19 Apr 2021

https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/1650 See if this works.
Looking for open source projects that use data pipelines and big data flows
7 projects | /r/dataengineering | 8 Apr 2021

Is logstash the kind of project you are looking for? https://github.com/elastic/logstash
Top Observability tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs
1 project | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

Logstash is completely free and the source code is available freely on GitHub.
Disable Console Output in Logstash 7.10
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 28 Dec 2020

What log level are you set to in logstash.yml? The default log level is "info" which is pretty chatty. I set mine to "error". See https://github.com/elastic/logstash/blob/master/config/logstash.yml#L248.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BOSH and Logstash you can also consider the following projects:

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Logback - The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java.

Puppet - Server automation framework and application

Apache Log4j 2 - Apache Log4j 2 is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for Java.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

nifi - Apache NiFi

Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale

graylog - Free and open log management

Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

Flume - Mirror of Apache Flume

Ruby-LXC - ruby bindings for liblxc

Logbook - An extensible Java library for HTTP request and response logging