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Rsyslog

A high-performance system for log processing
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What is Rsyslog?

It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. It is able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.
Rsyslog is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.
Rsyslog is an open source tool with 1.9K GitHub stars and 627 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rsyslog's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Rsyslog?

Companies
5 companies reportedly use Rsyslog in their tech stacks, including DigitalOcean, VisualVest, and Kartaca.

Developers
30 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rsyslog.

Rsyslog Integrations

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Splunk, and Coralogix are some of the popular tools that integrate with Rsyslog. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Rsyslog.

Rsyslog's Features

  • Multi-threading
  • TCP, SSL, TLS, RELP
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and more
  • Filter any part of syslog message

Rsyslog Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Rsyslog?
Logstash
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.
Fluentd
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.
Filebeat
It helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files.
Logback
It is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project. It is divided into three modules, logback-core, logback-classic and logback-access. The logback-core module lays the groundwork for the other two modules, logback-classic natively implements the SLF4J API so that you can readily switch back and forth between logback and other logging frameworks and logback-access module integrates with Servlet containers, such as Tomcat and Jetty, to provide HTTP-access log functionality.
SLF4J
It is a simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks allowing the end user to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.
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Rsyslog's Followers
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