Blackfire.io vs Logstash

Blackfire.io vs Logstash: What are the differences?

Developers describe Blackfire.io as "Blackfire Profiler automatically instruments your code to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O". Blackfire achieves a new level of accuracy by aggregating several profile samples and getting rid of non relevant data. Get even deeper and review the interactions with your entire stack (SQL database engines, cache servers, ...). On the other hand, Logstash is detailed as "Collect, Parse, & Enrich Data". Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.

Blackfire.io and Logstash are primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" and "Log Management" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Blackfire.io are:

• Profile a page at a mouse click thanks to the Blackfire web browser extension
• Browse through the function calls and identify performance bottlenecks thanks to the Blackfire intuitive UI
• Because Blackfire is only triggered when you profile a request, there is no overhead for other requests

On the other hand, Logstash provides the following key features:

• Centralize data processing of all types
• Normalize varying schema and formats
• Quickly extend to custom log formats

"Deep insights into PHP request cycle" is the primary reason why developers consider Blackfire.io over the competitors, whereas "Free" was stated as the key factor in picking Logstash.

Logstash is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 2.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Logstash's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Logstash has a broader approval, being mentioned in 562 company stacks & 278 developers stacks; compared to Blackfire.io, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.