When comparing Scribe vs ELSA, the Slant community recommends Scribe for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Scribe is ranked 13th while ELSA is ranked 47th. The most important reason people chose Scribe is:
Scribe uses Thrift for its protocol encoding so it's compatible with pretty much any language you want to use with it.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Works with pretty much any language
Scribe uses Thrift for its protocol encoding so it's compatible with pretty much any language you want to use with it.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under the Apache 2.0.
Pro Open source
ELSA is free and open source, released under the GPL license.
Cons
Con No longer supported
Scribe has been abandoned and is no longer supported by Facebook. This means that it's no longer possible to submit pull requests or to open issues.
Con Poor documentation
The project looks already old with a poor documentation and no clear information about the Web UI.
Con Does not work on CentOS
Installation fails on CentOS