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Logstash vs Splunk Cloud: 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 Splunk Cloud? Easy and fast way to analyze valuable machine data with the convenience of software as a service (SaaS). If you're looking for all the benefits of Splunk® Enterprise with all the benefits of software-as-a-service, then look no further. Splunk Cloud is backed by a 100% uptime SLA, scales to over 10TB/day, and offers a highly secure environment.
Logstash and Splunk Cloud 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, Splunk Cloud provides the following key features:
- Splunk Cloud delivers all the features of award-winning Splunk® Enterprise, as a cloud-based service. The platform provides access to various apps and enables centralized visibility across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments
- Instant: Instant trial and instant conversion from POC to production
- Secure: Completed SOC2 Type 2 Attestation*. Dedicated cloud environments for each customer
"Free" is the top reason why over 60 developers like Logstash, while over 3 developers mention "More powerful & Integrates with on-prem & off-prem" as the leading cause for choosing Splunk Cloud.
Logstash is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 2.78K 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 561 company stacks & 278 developers stacks; compared to Splunk Cloud, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 5 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 Splunk Cloud
- More powerful & Integrates with on-prem & off-prem7
- Free3
- Powerful log analytics3
- Pci compliance1
- Production debugger1
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Cons of Logstash
- Memory-intensive4
- Documentation difficult to use1
Cons of Splunk Cloud
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