When comparing Logsniffer vs Rsyslog, 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 Logsniffer is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Rsyslog is:
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Monitoring and alerting
Scans logs in real-time using powerful search routines and publishes identified events to several channels. Storing events in an Elasticsearch index enables extensive analysis.
Pro UI first approach
Everything can be managed by the great UI: Configuring logs, start/stop alerts etc.
Pro Endless scrolling through logs – forward and backward
There is no need to adjust time filter ranges etc. to scroll up or down in the sequence of log messages.
Pro Lightweight on-premise app
All-in-one bundled web application, 30MB with a low memory footprint. Only Java is required.
Pro Real-time log tailing
Logs are accessed and tailed directly from files in real-time.
Pro Free and Open Source
Rsyslog is a free and open source tool.
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.