Fluentd Alternatives - SysAdmin Log Management

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Code Quality Rank: L3

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Programming language: Ruby

License: Apache License 2.0

Tags: Log Management

Latest version: v1.8.0.rc2

Fluentd alternatives and similar tools

Based on the "Log Management" category

Kibana

8.8 10.0 L3 Fluentd VS Kibana

Visualize logs and time-stamped data.
Logstash

8.7 9.0 L4 Fluentd VS Logstash

Tool for managing events and logs.
Graylog2

8.4 9.7 L4 Fluentd VS Graylog2

Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.
Heka

7.6 0.0 Fluentd VS Heka

Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation.
Flume

7.3 6.4 L2 Fluentd VS Flume

Distributed log collection and aggregation system.
Elasticsearch

5.0 10.0 L2 Fluentd VS Elasticsearch

A Lucene Based Document store mainly used for log indexing, storage and analysis.
Hindsight

4.6 6.5 Fluentd VS Hindsight

Stream processing system which may be used for log aggregation (Replaces Heka).
Octopussy

2.8 0.0 L4 Fluentd VS Octopussy

Log Management Solution (Visualize / Alert / Report).
Echofish

2.5 4.3 L3 Fluentd VS Echofish

A web based real-time event log aggregation, analysis, monitoring and management system.
Graylog

- - Fluentd VS Graylog

Pluggable Log and Event Analysis Server with Alerting options.

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README

Fluentd: Open-Source Log Collector

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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 (Learn more about the Unified Logging Layer).

An event consists of tag, time and record. Tag is a string separated with '.' (e.g. myapp.access). It is used to categorize events. Time is a UNIX time recorded at occurrence of an event. Record is a JSON object.

Example Use Cases

Use Case	Description	Diagram
Centralizing Apache/Nginx Server Logs	Fluentd can be used to tail access/error logs and transport them reliably to remote systems.
Syslog Alerting	Fluentd can "grep" for events and send out alerts.
Mobile/Web Application Logging	Fluentd can function as middleware to enable asynchronous, scalable logging for user action events.

Quick Start

$ gem install fluentd
$ fluentd -s conf
$ fluentd -c conf/fluent.conf &
$ echo '{"json":"message"}' | fluent-cat debug.test

Development

Branch

master: For v1 development.
v0.12: For v0.12. This is security maintenance mode. Only security fix is accepted.

Prerequisites

Ruby 2.1 or later
git

git should be in PATH. On Windows, you can use Github for Windows and GitShell for easy setup.

Install dependent gems

Use bundler:

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle

Run test

$ bundle exec rake test

You can run specified test via TEST environment variable:

$ bundle exec rake test TEST=test/test_specified_path.rb
$ bundle exec rake test TEST=test/test_*.rb

Fluentd UI: Admin GUI

Fluentd UI is a graphical user interface to start/stop/configure Fluentd.

More Information

Website: https://www.fluentd.org/
Documentation: https://docs.fluentd.org/
Project repository: https://github.com/fluent
Discussion: https://groups.google.com/group/fluentd
Slack / Community: https://slack.fluentd.org
Newsletters: https://www.fluentd.org/newsletter
Author: Sadayuki Furuhashi
License: Apache License, Version 2.0

Contributors:

Patches contributed by great developers.

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Fluentd README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.

Fluentd

Log Collector and Shipper.