logback-gelf VS logstash-logback-encoder

Compare logback-gelf vs logstash-logback-encoder and see what are their differences.

logback-gelf

Logback appender for sending GELF messages with zero additional dependencies. (by osiegmar)
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logback-gelf logstash-logback-encoder
2 8
208 2,386
- 1.2%
8.0 5.2
14 days ago 20 days ago
Java Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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logback-gelf

Posts with mentions or reviews of logback-gelf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-24.
  • Newbie dependency issue
    1 project | /r/Maven | 5 Jan 2022
    I browsed to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/de.siegmar/logback-gelf to find an updated version (4.0.2) and when I go to the linked github and view the changelog (https://github.com/osiegmar/logback-gelf/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) of that version it clearly indicates that it upgraded logback components to 1.2.9. Actually it reads "Update dependency to logback 1.2.9" and the linked issue clearly indicates a fix to the CVE raised by OWASP dependency check.
  • Logging GELF Log messages to Seq in Kotlin
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2021
    logback-gelf

logstash-logback-encoder

Posts with mentions or reviews of logstash-logback-encoder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-20.
  • Tracing: Structured Logging, but better in every way
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
  • Do you have a guideline on logging
    1 project | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 5 Apr 2023
    I use the logstash json format.
  • How to do JSON logging in Scala?
    6 projects | /r/scala | 22 Oct 2022
    We're using https://github.com/logfellow/logstash-logback-encoder with logback (on Play Framework, but should work fine on Lambda as well).
  • JSON logging for JSON REST services vs performance
    3 projects | /r/devops | 29 May 2022
    For those interested in the details, I've created an example implementation based on Spring-flavoured REST and Logbook+logstash-logback-encoder within my own json-log-filter project for PoC / reference.
  • Echopraxia, a better Java Logging API
    10 projects | /r/java | 2 Jan 2022
    what's the difference to https://github.com/logfellow/logstash-logback-encoder ??
  • Is it reasonable to transform log4jlogs in via a configuration file?
    2 projects | /r/java | 9 Nov 2021
    Don't use filebeat. Filebeat is for systems that you cannot change logging for. Push logs directly to logstash via logstash appender. Since I'm mainly logback user, there's one directly by logstash at https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder. Quick search indicates that there's https://github.com/viskan/logstash-appender/ for log4j also and it seems it also supports MDC abuse as indicated by https://github.com/viskan/logstash-appender/blob/master/src/main/java/com/viskan/log4j/logstash/appender/LogstashAppender.java#L256. By abusing the MDC you won't need to write a processing pattern in logstash to extract metadata from giant blob line as each key in MDC will get assigned additional value, making your records in elastic search more useful.
  • Java Spring Application logging to WS endpoint
    1 project | /r/javahelp | 23 Jul 2021
    You can use the Logstash Logback encooder. You mentioned Elk, so there must be a Logstash running somewhere you can connect to with this appender
  • Spring Cloud Sleuth in action
    6 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2021
    We need to add traceId and spanId values to the application log. In production we would use the logstash-logback-encoder to generate logs in JSON format and send them to an ELK but for the demo we use this plain text logback layout:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing logback-gelf and logstash-logback-encoder you can also consider the following projects:

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

spring-cloud-sleuth-in-action - πŸ€ Spring Cloud Sleuth in Action

SLF4J - Simple Logging Facade for Java

zipkin - Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

logstash-gelf - Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) implementation in Java for all major logging frameworks: log4j, log4j2, java.util.logging, logback, JBossAS7 and WildFly 8-12

logstash-appender - A log4j appender that sends raw JSON directly to Logstash

nzyme - Network Defense System.

logback-android - πŸ“„The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Android

graylog - Free and open log management

kafkacat - Generic command line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer [Moved to: https://github.com/edenhill/kcat]

tproxy-java - A small transparent proxy written in java

json-log-filter - High-performance filtering of to-be-logged JSON, for example for request-/response-logging in the cloud.