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Fluentd vs LogTrail: What are the differences?
Developers describe Fluentd as "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. On the other hand, LogTrail is detailed as "*A Kibana plugin to view, search and tail logs and events *". LogTrail is a plugin for Kibana to view, analyze, search and tail log events from multiple hosts in realtime with devops friendly interface inspired by Papertrail.
Fluentd and LogTrail belong to "Log Management" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Fluentd are:
- Open source
- Flexible
- Minimum resources
On the other hand, LogTrail provides the following key features:
- View, analyze and search log events from a centralized interface
- Clean & simple devops friendly interface
- Live tail
Fluentd and LogTrail are both open source tools. It seems that Fluentd with 8.04K GitHub stars and 938 forks on GitHub has more adoption than LogTrail with 1.18K GitHub stars and 148 GitHub forks.
Pros of Fluentd
- Open-source11
- Great for Kubernetes node container log forwarding10
- Easy9
- Lightweight9