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Add to SafariWhen comparing Rsyslog vs Flume, the Slant community recommends Rsyslog for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Rsyslog is ranked 9th while Flume is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Rsyslog is:
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free and Open Source
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
Pro Flume is transactional (no lost when duplicating streams), and can be backuped by Kafka
Pro Hadoop integration
Flume was created to efficiently move log data to Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under Apache 2.0.
Cons
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.
Con Hard to manage
Since Flume cannot do multiplex connections, it's extremely hard to manage. It's essentially one socket per log type.
