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Fluentd vs ODE

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When comparing Fluentd vs ODE, the Slant community recommends Fluentd for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Fluentd is ranked 4th while ODE is ranked 35th. The most important reason people chose Fluentd is:

Gives structure to unstructured logs.

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PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac

Typeaggregation

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What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?

Fluentd

ODE

Pros

Pro
Logs everything in JSON

Gives structure to unstructured logs.

Pro
Logs stored to FS buffer while network is down

Logs aren't lost due to network issues.

Pro
In-stream processing

With a list of 150+ plugins, Fluentd can perform all kinds of in-stream data processing tasks.

Pro
Huge plugin ecosystem

Fluentd has a plugin ecosystem that has resulted in developers creating over 150 plugins for the service.

Pro
Prioritizes simplicity and robustness

For example, inputs and outputs have built-in support for buffering, load-balancing, timeouts and retries so to be able to deliver data reliably.

Pro
Free and open source

Licensed under Apache 2.0.

Pro
Routing based on tags

Pro
Exponential retry wait

Pro
Copy to multiple storages

Pro
Based on CRuby

Pro
Scales easily

ODE instances are independent of each other, so they don't have to worry about a peer being added/removed. This allows the cluster to grow without any performance hit on the log aggregation. There is no redundancy built-in, but you can always use the forwarder to duplicate data. There is no sharding configuration or any other penalty that comes up with scaling a cluster. The clustering configuration is also very easy where you just list out peers for one of the node in order for it to run a search query on the whole cluster and merge the results. Scales better than any other open source log management tool out there.