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nifi		Logstash
	Project
35	Mentions	5
4,381	Stars	13,999
3.1%	Growth	0.6%
9.9	Activity	9.6
6 days ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	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.

nifi

Posts with mentions or reviews of nifi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-19.

FLaNK Stack Weekly 19 Feb 2024
50 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2024
Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023
FLaNK Stack Weekly for 13 November 2023
30 projects | dev.to | 13 Nov 2023
Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023

Apache NIFI (https://nifi.apache.org/).
It uses the concept of Flow-based programming. Also its so underacknolged but this tool is very flexible. I have used as an Event Bus all the 3rd-Party Integrations.
Apache Nifi: easy to use, powerful, reliable system to process, distribute data
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
Tool decision - What architecture would you choose and why?
2 projects | /r/dataengineering | 11 Jul 2023
Help with choosing techstack for a new DE team
1 project | /r/dataengineering | 5 Jul 2023

Presently setting up Apache Nifi + Apache MiNiFi for the ETL portion of my work. NiFi was easy enough to figure out; but the docs for MiNiFi have been a pain due to differences between the Java and C++ versions. I then entirely configured it with the Java version so that it was easier to search for answers for the MiNiFi yaml syntax.
MS SQL Change Data Capture
1 project | /r/nifi | 22 May 2023

Found it
Is there something like airflow but written in Scala/Java?
2 projects | /r/bigdata | 8 May 2023

Apache Camel Apache Nifi Spring Cloud
Json splitting and Rerouting (new to nifi)
1 project | /r/nifi | 3 May 2023

NIFI, like most Apache projects does most of its discussion on its mailing lists, but also has a slack.

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.

Simple way to centralize my server logs?
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Jan 2023

There are probably too many to chose from. Logstash, Promtail, Vector, Filebeat, FluentD, Logagent and probably many more
Help with parsing log in logstash into uniqe lines
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 19 Apr 2021

https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/1650 See if this works.
Looking for open source projects that use data pipelines and big data flows
7 projects | /r/dataengineering | 8 Apr 2021

Is logstash the kind of project you are looking for? https://github.com/elastic/logstash
Top Observability tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs
1 project | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

Logstash is completely free and the source code is available freely on GitHub.
Disable Console Output in Logstash 7.10
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 28 Dec 2020

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 nifi and Logstash you can also consider the following projects:

superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

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

meltano

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

meltano - Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.

graylog - Free and open log management

Pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

Flume - Mirror of Apache Flume

Metabase - The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:

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

Apache Cassandra - Mirror of Apache Cassandra

SLF4J - Simple Logging Facade for Java