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Rsyslog vs Appenlight

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When comparing Rsyslog vs Appenlight, the Slant community recommends Rsyslog for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Rsyslog is ranked 10th while Appenlight is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Rsyslog is:

Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.

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What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?
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Rsyslog
Appenlight

Pros

Endi Sukaj
Mark Armendariz

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Free and Open Source

Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.

maq

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Log events system

It's possible to trigger events on certain logs. For example log.error happens, or failed password text is found in logs

Laura Kyle
maq

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Error reporting

Sentry compatible and custom error reporting for most popular languages like JavaScript, Go, Python, Java, and PHP.

maq

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Scales for Enterprises

Multi-node elasticsearch and scalable architecture easily supports 10000s+ of events/min

maq

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Custom log Dashboards

Plot any type of graphs and aggregation with an easy to use composer.

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Cons

JamiTaggart

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Difficult to configure

The config is not user friendly at all compared to syslog-ng

Endi Sukaj

Con
Not spread to many platforms

Rsyslog is only available for Linux and Solaris.

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