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Fluentd vs Logsene: What are the differences?
What is Fluentd? Unified logging layer. Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.
What is Logsene? ELK as a Service Log Management. Log Management SaaS, compatible with ELK stack. It exposes Elasticsearch API and Kibana, has compatibility with Grafana, powerful search, reporting, correlation with metrics, alerting, and anomaly detection. Also Available On Premises.
Fluentd and Logsene can be categorized as "Log Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Fluentd are:
- Open source
- Flexible
- Minimum resources
On the other hand, Logsene provides the following key features:
- Available in the Cloud and On Premises
- Exposes Elasticsearch API
- Includes Kibana
Fluentd is an open source tool with 8.04K GitHub stars and 938 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Fluentd's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Fluentd
- Open-source11
- Great for Kubernetes node container log forwarding10
- Easy9
- Lightweight9
Pros of Sematext
- Vercel integration5
- Great filtering and grouping5
- Easy to set up5
- Centralized log management5
- ECS integration5
- Custom dashboards4
- Built-in dashboards4
- Includes Kibana3
- Live logging3
- Flexible plans2
- Elasticsearch API1
- Easy setup1
- Full monitoring platform1