Add to ChromeWhen comparing ELSA vs Rsyslog, the Slant community recommends Rsyslog for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Rsyslog is ranked 6th while ELSA is ranked 41st. The most important reason people chose Rsyslog is:
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Open source
ELSA is free and open source, released under the GPL license.
Pro Free and Open Source
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
Cons
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
Con Difficult to configure
The config is not user friendly at all compared to syslog-ng
Con Not spread to many platforms
Rsyslog is only available for Linux and Solaris.
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