Fluentd VS unifi-poller

Get Started with Fluentd

Currently, there is no cluster-wide logging. Fluentd can be used to have a unified logging layer for the cluster.

Fluentd hasn't been touched for 8 years? Looking at the repo it looks like it's alive and well. https://github.com/fluent/fluentd

Fluentd is an open-source log management and data collection tool. Just like Logstash, Fluentd uses a pipeline-based architecture. This allows it to collect data from various sources and network traffic and forward it to various destinations.

Fluentd is a powerful log management tool that offers organizations the flexibility and scalability required to handle large volumes of log data from a variety of sources and transport it to various destinations. Utilizing a flexible and modular architecture, Fluentd allows users to easily add new input and output plugins to integrate with a wide range of systems and applications. It supports a wide range of data sources and destinations, including databases, message queues, and data stores.

Substation is an affordable alternative to products like Cribl (~10x cost savings) and is easier to manage than similar open-source projects such as Logstash and fluentd. It's been used in production by the security team at Brex for 2+ years and is ready for any scale, even beyond 100,000 events per second!

There are probably too many to chose from. Logstash, Promtail, Vector, Filebeat, FluentD, Logagent and probably many more

To alleviate some of the pain, it’s a good idea to use industry standards and tooling like OpenTelemetry (https://opentelemetry.io). For data collection specific to logs, open-source tools like LogStash and Fluentd are also popular.

Created and maintained by the creators of fluentd, fluentbit is a lightweight, fast, and scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder. Built specifically for the cloud and containerized environments, it allows users to collect data from any source, enrich it with filters and forward it to the tool of their choice.

possibly https://unpoller.com/ ?

I'm looking for something that will pull near real time switch port traffic. The 5 min avg that the gui gives you isn't granular enough. I did find https://unpoller.com/, but doesn't appear to be updated in a few years. Is there anything else, that maybe uses SNMP or something?

I have Unfi equipment and I use unpoller

Not at all. If you're looking to get accurate metrics from the Unifi, then I'd suggest using UniFi Poller with Grafana

If you've got Ubiquiti like I do you can use https://github.com/unpoller/unpoller to push your logs / stats to your stack I believe. Or alternatively the OPNsense one.

Unifi Poller -> Prometheus -> Grafana

The Dashboard consists of: Varken for aggregating data from the Plex ecosystem into InfluxDB using Grafana for a frontend. OPNsense capturing with the help of Telegraf plugin. Adguard Home monitoring utilizing a custom exporter named Adguard_Exporter for prometheus. UniFi agregating with UnPoller. For TrueNAS Scale, I installed the community catalog for installing Kube Apps, this allowed me to installed Prometheus and use the node-exporter provided on this dashboard. Proxmox metrics server provided here.

Why not just use https://github.com/unpoller/unpoller and modern observability like Prometheus and Loki for events and logs ?? It is working on my side and cannot back to things like Zabbix, Cacti or anything like this. Alerting also possible without any problems.

Unpoller to collect metrics from my network devices