Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Flume vs Syslog-ng, the Slant community recommends Syslog-ng for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Syslog-ng is ranked 10th while Flume is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Syslog-ng is:
Syslog-ng is free and open source.
Specs
Typeaggregation
Typeaggregation
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Pros
Pro Flume is transactional (no lost when duplicating streams), and can be backuped by Kafka
Pro Hadoop integration
Flume was created to efficiently move log data to Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under Apache 2.0.
Pro Free and open source
Syslog-ng is free and open source.
Cons
Con Hard to manage
Since Flume cannot do multiplex connections, it's extremely hard to manage. It's essentially one socket per log type.
Con No advanced filtering out of the box
Sylog-ng does not have any advanced filtering out of the box.