Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Kafka vs Syslog-ng, 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 Syslog-ng is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Kafka is:
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
Specs
Typemonitoring
Typeaggregation
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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 Free and open source
Syslog-ng is free and open source.
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
Con No advanced filtering out of the box
Sylog-ng does not have any advanced filtering out of the box.