Logback vs Logstash vs OK Log

Overview

Logstash

Stacks11.6K

Followers8.8K

Votes103

GitHub Stars14.7K

Forks3.5K

Logback

Stacks1.3K

Followers76

Votes0

OK Log

Stacks17

Followers13

Votes0

GitHub Stars3.0K

Forks167

Detailed Comparison

Logstash	Logback	OK Log
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.	It is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project. It is divided into three modules, logback-core, logback-classic and logback-access. The logback-core module lays the groundwork for the other two modules, logback-classic natively implements the SLF4J API so that you can readily switch back and forth between logback and other logging frameworks and logback-access module integrates with Servlet containers, such as Tomcat and Jetty, to provide HTTP-access log functionality.	OK Log is a distributed and coördination-free log management system for big ol' clusters. It's an on-prem solution that's designed to be a sort of building block: easy to understand, easy to operate, and easy to extend.
Centralize data processing of all types;Normalize varying schema and formats;Quickly extend to custom log formats;Easily add plugins for custom data source	-	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 14.7K	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 3.0K
GitHub Forks 3.5K	GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 167
Stacks 11.6K	Stacks 1.3K	Stacks 17
Followers 8.8K	Followers 76	Followers 13
Votes 103	Votes 0	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 69 Free 18 Easy but powerful filtering 12 Scalable 2 Kibana provides machine learning based analytics to log 1 Well Documented Cons 4 Memory-intensive 1 Documentation difficult to use	No community feedback yet	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Kibana Elasticsearch Beats	No integrations available	Docker

What are some alternatives to Logstash, Logback, OK Log?

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.

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.

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.

Logentries

Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

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.

Sematext

Sematext pulls together performance monitoring, logs, user experience and synthetic monitoring that tools organizations need to troubleshoot performance issues faster.

Fluentd

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.

ELK

It is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a "stash" like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch.

Sumo Logic

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.