Flume
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like data (by apache)
Logstash
Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data (by elastic)
| Flume | Logstash | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | |
| 2,503 | 14,014 | |
| 0.4% | 0.3% | |
| 5.1 | 9.6 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | 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.
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.
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.
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Simple way to centralize my server logs?
There are probably too many to chose from. Logstash, Promtail, Vector, Filebeat, FluentD, Logagent and probably many more
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Help with parsing log in logstash into uniqe lines
https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/1650 See if this works.
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Looking for open source projects that use data pipelines and big data flows
Is logstash the kind of project you are looking for? https://github.com/elastic/logstash
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Top Observability tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs
Logstash is completely free and the source code is available freely on GitHub.
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Disable Console Output in Logstash 7.10
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 Flume and Logstash you can also consider the following projects:
Fluentd - Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)
Logback - The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java.
graylog - Free and open log management
Apache Log4j 2 - Apache Log4j 2 is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for Java.
kibana - Your window into the Elastic Stack
nifi - Apache NiFi
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Logbook - An extensible Java library for HTTP request and response logging
heka - DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy.
SLF4J - Simple Logging Facade for Java