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Graylog vs Rsyslog: What are the differences?

Graylog: Open source log management that actually works. Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information; Rsyslog: A high-performance system for log processing. It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. It is able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.

Graylog and Rsyslog can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.

Graylog and Rsyslog are both open source tools. It seems that Graylog with 4.93K GitHub stars and 765 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rsyslog with 1.04K GitHub stars and 419 GitHub forks.

CircleCI, Dial Once, and pludoni GmbH are some of the popular companies that use Graylog, whereas Rsyslog is used by DigitalOcean, iwantmyname, and Dev Spotlight. Graylog has a broader approval, being mentioned in 93 company stacks & 122 developers stacks; compared to Rsyslog, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of Graylog
Pros of Rsyslog
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    Open source
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    Powerfull
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    Well documented
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    Alerts
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    User authentification
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    Flexibel query and parsing language
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    User management
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    Easy query language and english parsing
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    Alerts and dashboards
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    Easy to install
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    A large community
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    Manage users and permissions
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    Free Version
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    Cons of Graylog
    Cons of Rsyslog
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      Does not handle frozen indices at all
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      What is Graylog?

      Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information.

      What is Rsyslog?

      It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. It is able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.

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