When comparing Flume vs Stackify, the Slant community recommends Flume for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Flume is ranked 14th while Stackify is ranked 25th.
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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 Easy to install, value out-of-the-box, easy to use
We are using Stackify to monitor everything related to the app including the app performance, server performance, DB, webpages, custom metrics and then when an issue happen, it is great to have the errors and logs all connected together. Way better than any of the log only or error only tools
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 Free Plan
There is no free plan.
Con Minimal
Loggly cannot scale into a full blown infrastructure for analytics. This is simply a tools for parsing log data coming from your apps.