When comparing Stackify vs Fluentd, the Slant community recommends Fluentd for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Fluentd is ranked 4th while Stackify is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Fluentd is:
Gives structure to unstructured logs.
Specs
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Pros
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
Pro Logs everything in JSON
Gives structure to unstructured logs.
Pro Logs stored to FS buffer while network is down
Logs aren't lost due to network issues.
Pro In-stream processing
With a list of 150+ plugins, Fluentd can perform all kinds of in-stream data processing tasks.
Pro Huge plugin ecosystem
Fluentd has a plugin ecosystem that has resulted in developers creating over 150 plugins for the service.
Pro Prioritizes simplicity and robustness
For example, inputs and outputs have built-in support for buffering, load-balancing, timeouts and retries so to be able to deliver data reliably.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under Apache 2.0.
Pro Routing based on tags
Pro Exponential retry wait
Pro Copy to multiple storages
Pro Based on CRuby
Cons
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.
Con Difficult to setup
Requires a significant time investment to get up and running.