When comparing Rsyslog vs Stackify, 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 Stackify is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Rsyslog is:
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
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Pros
Pro Free and Open Source
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
Pro Easy to install, value out-of-the-box, easy to use
We are using Stackify to monitor everything related to the app including the app performance, server performance, DB, webpages, custom metrics and then when an issue happen, it is great to have the errors and logs all connected together. Way better than any of the log only or error only tools
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 No Free Plan
There is no free plan.
Con Minimal
Loggly cannot scale into a full blown infrastructure for analytics. This is simply a tools for parsing log data coming from your apps.