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  5. Kibana vs Rollbar vs Sumo Logic

Kibana vs Rollbar vs Sumo Logic

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Rollbar
Rollbar
Stacks1.7K
Followers1.1K
Votes531
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Stacks192
Followers282
Votes21
Kibana
Kibana
Stacks20.6K
Followers16.4K
Votes262
GitHub Stars20.8K
Forks8.5K

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Advice on Rollbar, Sumo Logic, Kibana

matteo1989it
matteo1989it

Jun 26, 2019

ReviewonKibanaKibanaGrafanaGrafanaElasticsearchElasticsearch

I use both Kibana and Grafana on my workplace: Kibana for logging and Grafana for monitoring. Since you already work with Elasticsearch, I think Kibana is the safest choice in terms of ease of use and variety of messages it can manage, while Grafana has still (in my opinion) a strong link to metrics

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StackShare
StackShare

Jun 25, 2019

Needs advice

From a StackShare Community member: “We need better analytics & insights into our Elasticsearch cluster. Grafana, which ships with advanced support for Elasticsearch, looks great but isn’t officially supported/endorsed by Elastic. Kibana, on the other hand, is made and supported by Elastic. I’m wondering what people suggest in this situation."

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abrahamfathman
abrahamfathman

Jun 26, 2019

ReviewonKibanaKibanaSplunkSplunkGrafanaGrafana

I use Kibana because it ships with the ELK stack. I don't find it as powerful as Splunk however it is light years above grepping through log files. We previously used Grafana but found it to be annoying to maintain a separate tool outside of the ELK stack. We were able to get everything we needed from Kibana.

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Detailed Comparison

Rollbar
Rollbar
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Kibana
Kibana

Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate ra

Cloud-based machine data analytics platform that enables companies to proactively identify availability and performance issues in their infrastructure, improve their security posture and enhance application rollouts. Companies using Sumo Logic reduce their mean-time-to-resolution by 50% and can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, annually. Customers include Netflix, Medallia, Orange, and GoGo Inflight.

Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

Real-time visibility; Get real-time alerts on errors as they happen in an easy to read dashboard; No more noise or missed alarms with automation-grade grouping, powered by machine learning. Proactive triaging; Take proactive actions on new bugs and regressions with AI-assisted workflows; Get all the diagnostic and contextual data needed to triage errors. Root cause analysis; Get stack trace and all the data you need to debug, including request params, local var values, browsers, IPs, and more; Use Telemetry feature to retrace browser events leading up to an error. Strong security; Protect your data with encryption at rest. Broad platform support and Seamless integrations.
Ability to collect data from on-premise sources, private/public/hybrid clouds, and SaaS/PaaS environments;Real-time continuous query engine that constantly updates dashboards and reports for immediate visualization;Anomaly detection engine that enables companies to proactively uncover events without writing rules;LogReduce, our pattern-recognition engine, that distills tens/hundreds of thousands of log messages into a set of patterns for easier issue identification and resolution;The ability to support data bursts on-demand with our elastic log processing architecture;Real-time alerts and notifications
Flexible analytics and visualization platform;Real-time summary and charting of streaming data;Intuitive interface for a variety of users;Instant sharing and embedding of dashboards
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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20.8K
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
8.5K
Stacks
1.7K
Stacks
192
Stacks
20.6K
Followers
1.1K
Followers
282
Followers
16.4K
Votes
531
Votes
21
Votes
262
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 74
    Consolidates similar errors by impact
  • 64
    Centralize error management
  • 63
    Slack integration
  • 58
    Github integration
  • 47
    Usage based pricing
Pros
  • 11
    Search capabilities
  • 5
    Live event streaming
  • 3
    Pci 3.0 compliant
  • 2
    Easy to setup
Cons
  • 2
    Expensive
  • 1
    Missing Monitoring
  • 1
    Occasionally unreliable log ingestion
Pros
  • 88
    Easy to setup
  • 65
    Free
  • 45
    Can search text
  • 21
    Has pie chart
  • 13
    X-axis is not restricted to timestamp
Cons
  • 7
    Unintuituve
  • 4
    Elasticsearch is huge
  • 4
    Works on top of elastic only
  • 3
    Hardweight UI
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AWS CloudTrail
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What are some alternatives to Rollbar, Sumo Logic, Kibana?

Sentry

Sentry

Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.

Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

Papertrail

Papertrail

Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs.

Bugsnag

Bugsnag

Bugsnag captures errors from your web, mobile and back-end applications, providing instant visibility into user impact. Diagnostic data and tools are included to help your team prioritize, debug and fix exceptions fast.

Prometheus

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

Logmatic

Logmatic

Get a clear overview of what is happening across your distributed environments, and spot the needle in the haystack in no time. Build dynamic analyses and identify improvements for your software, your user experience and your business.

Raygun

Raygun

Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users with greater speed and accuracy.

Loggly

Loggly

It is a SaaS solution to manage your log data. There is nothing to install and updates are automatically applied to your Loggly subdomain.

Opbeat

Opbeat

Opbeat is application monitoring for developers, and gives you performance metrics, error logging, release tracking and workflow in one smart product.

Airbrake

Airbrake

Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast.

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