heka vs Logstash

heka

DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy. (by mozilla-services)

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Logstash

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

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heka		Logstash
	Project
-	Mentions	5
3,399	Stars	13,999
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	9.6
3 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Go	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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heka

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

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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 heka and Logstash you can also consider the following projects:

toxiproxy - :alarm_clock: :fire: A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

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

Fluentd - Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

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

graylog - Free and open log management

nifi - Apache NiFi

Gor - GoReplay is an open-source tool for capturing and replaying live HTTP traffic into a test environment in order to continuously test your system with real data. It can be used to increase confidence in code deployments, configuration changes and infrastructure changes.

Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

Flume - Mirror of Apache Flume

Hindsight - Hindsight - light weight data processing skeleton

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