Logstash
Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data (by elastic)
Fluentd
Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF) (by fluent)
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| Logstash | Fluentd | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 25 | |
| 13,984 | 12,531 | |
| 0.5% | 0.7% | |
| 9.6 | 8.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| Java | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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.
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.
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 2023-08-15.
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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.
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7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that you may consider in 2023
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.
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Substation: Data Pipeline and Transformation Toolkit Written in Go
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!
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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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The Everything Guide to Data Collection in DevSecOps
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.
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Top 20 Observability Tools Every Startup Should Know About in 2022
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Logstash and Fluentd you can also consider the following projects:
Logback - The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java.
vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Apache Log4j 2 - Apache Log4j 2 is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for Java.
zipkin - Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
nifi - Apache NiFi
Flume - Mirror of Apache Flume
graylog - Free and open log management
Lograge - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
Semantic Logger - Semantic Logger is a feature rich logging framework, and replacement for existing Ruby & Rails loggers.
Logbook - An extensible Java library for HTTP request and response logging
heka - DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy.