When comparing Kafka vs Raygun, the Slant community recommends Kafka for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Kafka is ranked 8th while Raygun is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Kafka is:
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Optimized for performance
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
Pro Native mirroring support
Kafka has native support for mirroring.
Pro Native compression support
Kafka has native support for compression.
Pro Allows leaving comments on issues
It's possible to comment on issues. Great for coordinating if and how exceptions should be handled within a team.
Pro Exceptions are grouped
Raygun groups similar exceptions together displaying the number of occurences so that there's no need to deal with each instance of the error separately.
Pro Daily digest emails
Raygun can send a summary of all error that have happened over the day.
Pro Email notifications
Raygun can be set up to send email notifications as soon as exceptions occur.
Cons
Con Java is a resource hog
Java is a resource hog, making this far too slow unless you have money to throw at multiple servers with 1/2TB of ram.
Con Need Zookeeper
Kafka can only work with Zookeeper