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Kafka vs Rsyslog

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When comparing Kafka vs Rsyslog, the Slant community recommends Kafka for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Kafka is ranked 9th while Rsyslog is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Kafka is:

Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.

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

Pros

Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs

Pro
Optimized for performance

Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.

Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs

Pro
Native mirroring support

Kafka has native support for mirroring.

Endi Sukaj
Andris Pelcbergs

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Native compression support

Kafka has native support for compression.

Endi Sukaj
Mark Armendariz

Pro
Free and Open Source

Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.

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Cons

Ray
JamiTaggart

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.

Endi Sukaj
Łukasz Jan Niemier

Con
Need Zookeeper

Kafka can only work with Zookeeper

JamiTaggart

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Difficult to configure

The config is not user friendly at all compared to syslog-ng

Endi Sukaj

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Not spread to many platforms

Rsyslog is only available for Linux and Solaris.

 

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