Add to ChromeWhen 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 5th while Appenlight is ranked 22nd. 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 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
Pro Error reporting
Sentry compatible and custom error reporting for most popular languages like JavaScript, Go, Python, Java, and PHP.
Pro Scales for Enterprises
Multi-node elasticsearch and scalable architecture easily supports 10000s+ of events/min
Pro Custom log Dashboards
Plot any type of graphs and aggregation with an easy to use composer.
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.
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