Scribe vs Logsniffer
When comparing Scribe vs Logsniffer, the Slant community recommends Scribe for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Scribe is ranked 13th while Logsniffer is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Scribe is:
Scribe uses Thrift for its protocol encoding so it's compatible with pretty much any language you want to use with it.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Works with pretty much any language
Scribe uses Thrift for its protocol encoding so it's compatible with pretty much any language you want to use with it.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under the Apache 2.0.
Pro Monitoring and alerting
Scans logs in real-time using powerful search routines and publishes identified events to several channels. Storing events in an Elasticsearch index enables extensive analysis.
Pro UI first approach
Everything can be managed by the great UI: Configuring logs, start/stop alerts etc.
Pro Endless scrolling through logs – forward and backward
There is no need to adjust time filter ranges etc. to scroll up or down in the sequence of log messages.
Pro Lightweight on-premise app
All-in-one bundled web application, 30MB with a low memory footprint. Only Java is required.
Pro Real-time log tailing
Logs are accessed and tailed directly from files in real-time.
Cons
Con No longer supported
Scribe has been abandoned and is no longer supported by Facebook. This means that it's no longer possible to submit pull requests or to open issues.