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Logstash vs Papertrail: 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 Papertrail? Hosted log management for servers, apps, and cloud services. Papertrail helps detect, resolve, and avoid infrastructure problems using log messages. Papertrail's practicality comes from our own experience as sysadmins, developers, and entrepreneurs.
Logstash and Papertrail belong to "Log Management" category of the tech stack.
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, Papertrail provides the following key features:
- Intuitive Web-based log viewer
- Powerful command-line tools
- Long-term archive (S3)
"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Logstash over the competitors, whereas "Log search" was stated as the key factor in picking Papertrail.
Logstash is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 2.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Logstash's open source repository on GitHub.
reddit, Docplanner, and Harvest are some of the popular companies that use Logstash, whereas Papertrail is used by Instacart, StackShare, and Hinge. Logstash has a broader approval, being mentioned in 551 company stacks & 270 developers stacks; compared to Papertrail, which is listed in 244 company stacks and 46 developer stacks.
Pros of Logstash
- Free69
- Easy but powerful filtering18
- Scalable12
- Kibana provides machine learning based analytics to log2
- Great to meet GDPR goals1
- Well Documented1
Pros of Papertrail
- Log search85
- Easy log aggregation across multiple machines43
- Integrates with Heroku43
- Simple interface37
- Backup to S326
- Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup19
- Heroku add-on15
- Command line interface3
- Alerting1
- Good for Startups1
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Cons of Logstash
- Memory-intensive4
- Documentation difficult to use1
Cons of Papertrail
- Expensive2
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging1
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