Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Syslog-ng vs Kafka, the Slant community recommends Kafka for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Kafka is ranked 8th while Syslog-ng is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Kafka is:
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
Specs
Typeaggregation
Typemonitoring
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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Syslog-ng is free and open source.
Pro Optimized for performance
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
Pro Native mirroring support
Kafka has native support for mirroring.
Pro Native compression support
Kafka has native support for compression.
Cons
Con No advanced filtering out of the box
Sylog-ng does not have any advanced filtering out of the box.
Con Java is a resource hog
Java is a resource hog, making this far too slow unless you have money to throw at multiple servers with 1/2TB of ram.
Con Need Zookeeper
Kafka can only work with Zookeeper