Logstash VS heka

Compare Logstash vs heka and see what are their differences.

Logstash

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

heka

DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy. (by mozilla-services)
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Logstash heka
5 0
13,961 3,401
0.7% 0.0%
9.6 0.0
6 days ago about 5 years ago
Java Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

heka

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning heka yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Logstash and heka you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

nifi - Apache NiFi

graylog - Free and open log management

Flume - Mirror of Apache Flume

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

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

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

SLF4J - Simple Logging Facade for Java

kibana - Your window into the Elastic Stack

Hindsight - Hindsight - light weight data processing skeleton