Logstash vs Sematext: What are the differences?

What is Logstash? Collect, Parse, & Enrich Data. 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.

What is Sematext? Detect and troubleshoot issues with logs, metrics, synthetic, and real user monitoring. Sematext pulls together performance monitoring, logs, user experience and synthetic monitoring that tools organizations need to troubleshoot performance issues faster.

Logstash and Sematext can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Logstash are:

• Centralize data processing of all types
• Normalize varying schema and formats
• Quickly extend to custom log formats

On the other hand, Sematext provides the following key features:

• Available in the Cloud and On Premises
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• Application Performance Monitoring

Logstash is an open source tool with 11.7K GitHub stars and 3.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Logstash's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Logstash has a broader approval, being mentioned in 983 company stacks & 5101 developers stacks; compared to Sematext, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.