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Pros of Logstash
- Free69
- Easy but powerful filtering18
- Scalable12
- Kibana provides machine learning based analytics to log2
- Great to meet GDPR goals1
- Well Documented1
Pros of Papertrail
- Log search85
- Easy log aggregation across multiple machines43
- Integrates with Heroku43
- Simple interface37
- Backup to S326
- Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup19
- Heroku add-on15
- Command line interface3
- Alerting1
- Good for Startups1
Pros of Splunk
- API for searching logs, running reports3
- Alert system based on custom query results3
- Dashboarding on any log contents2
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing2
- Ability to style search results into reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc2
- Rich GUI for searching live logs2
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
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Cons of Logstash
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Cons of Logstash
- Memory-intensive4
- Documentation difficult to use1
Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1
Cons of Splunk
- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1
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What is 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.
What is Papertrail?
Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs.
What is Splunk?
It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
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What are some alternatives to Logstash, Papertrail, and Splunk?
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.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Beats
Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch.
Graylog
Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information.
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).