Logstash vs Runbook

Logstash vs Runbook: What are the differences?

Developers describe Logstash as "Collect, Parse, & Enrich Data". 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. On the other hand, Runbook is detailed as "Infrastructure Monitoring with Automated Remediation". Runbook is a SaaS application that monitors your servers and performs automated tasks when your monitors fails. Use Runbook to automatically recover from application crashes and unexpected failure without interrupting your service or your well earned sleep!.

Logstash can be classified as a tool in the "Log Management" category, while Runbook is grouped under "Remote Server Task Execution".

Some of the features offered by Logstash are:

• Centralize data processing of all types
• Normalize varying schema and formats
• Quickly extend to custom log formats

On the other hand, Runbook provides the following key features:

• Monitors are used to check the status of your environment. They can be webhooks that call to the Runbook RESTful API, they can be Datadog alerts, they can be ping requests. Or, you can setup our TCP custom port to validate connectivity.
• Reactions are automated tasks that are called when Monitors fail. It can be anything from starting or restarting servers on AWS, Digital Ocean, or elsewhere, to running a custom script or executing a command. You know, all the first things you try when you get a 4am wake-up call
• Integrated with the tools you use today: Heroku, Salt, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Logentries

Logstash and Runbook are both open source tools. Logstash with 10.3K GitHub stars and 2.78K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Runbook with 193 GitHub stars and 55 GitHub forks.