Flume
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like data (by apache)
Fluentd
Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF) (by fluent)
| Flume | Fluentd | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 30 | |
| 2,556 | 13,217 | |
| 0.1% | 0.4% | |
| 4.6 | 9.4 | |
| 9 months ago | 2 days ago | |
| Java | Ruby | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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.
Flume
Posts with mentions or reviews of Flume.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-17.
Fluentd
Posts with mentions or reviews of Fluentd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-25.
- 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery
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What is Kubernetes DaemonSet?
Here's a simple manifest for a DaemonSet that runs the Fluentd logging system on each of your cluster's Nodes:
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🌐 Navigating the CNCF Landscape: A Roadmap for Open Source Contributions 🚀
Fluentd Getting Started: Fluentd Docs
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Estratégias para diagnosticar problemas em containers Docker em Produção
Introduza ferramentas como ELK Stack ou Fluentd para gerenciar logs de containers em escala. Como configurar essas ferramentas com Docker para centralizar e analisar logs.
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Fastly and the Linux kernel
The open source projects Fastly uses and the foundations we partner with are vital to Fastly’s mission and success. Here's an unscientific list of projects and organizations supported by the Linux Foundation that we use and love include: The Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, containerd, eBPF, Falco, OpenAPI Initiative, ESLint, Express, Fastify, Lodash, Mocha, Node.js, Prometheus, Jenkins, OpenTelemetry, Envoy, etcd, Helm, osquery, Harbor, sigstore, cert-manager, Cilium, Fluentd, Keycloak, Open Policy Agent, Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority (C2PA), Flux, gRPC, Strimzi, Thanos, Linkerd, Let’s Encrypt, WebAssembly. And the list goes on!
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Embracing Kubernetes: The Future of Containerized Applications
Get Started with Fluentd
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Kubernetes Architecture
Currently, there is no cluster-wide logging. Fluentd can be used to have a unified logging layer for the cluster.
- Fluentd – open-source data collection and unified logging layer
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making job execution log searchable
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
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Top 11 Splunk Alternatives that you may consider in 2023
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Flume and Fluentd you can also consider the following projects:
Logstash - Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data
Lograge - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
heka - DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy.
Semantic Logger - Semantic Logger is a feature rich logging framework, and replacement for existing Ruby & Rails loggers.
kibana - Your window into the Elastic Stack