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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.
Pros of Graylog
- Open source19
- Powerfull13
- Well documented8
- Alerts6
- User authentification5
- Flexibel query and parsing language5
- User management3
- Easy query language and english parsing3
- Alerts and dashboards3
- Easy to install2
- A large community1
- Manage users and permissions1
- Free Version1
Pros of Rsyslog
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Cons of Graylog
- Does not handle frozen indices at all1