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0 pointsdidip11y ago0 comments

* Kibana on ElasticSearch. This is huge. You get a polished Search & Graphing UI with very little effort.

* Much more approachable config.

* Its clustering is easier to setup.

* Eventhough logstash is a bit heavy for my taste, the whole ELK stack is really nice for aggregating server logs.

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bbq11y ago

Agreed about logstash being too heavy for your app servers. It would be nice to have the functionality in a trim, native binary.

As things are, one can always direct an app sever's syslog to a logging fleet running logstash (or elasticsearch running embedded logstash): http://cookbook.logstash.net/recipes/rsyslog-agent/

tveita11y ago

I think that's what Heka is supposed to be.

It looks pretty promising, but I have yet to meet anyone who uses it.

bbq11y ago

Oh, that looks very nice. Neat to embed Lua as a sandboxed plugin environment.

Re: logstash too heavy

That's what logstash-forwarder[1] (formerly lumberjack) is for. It's in Go, not Java.

caw11y ago

I use beaver, which is a python variant of the logstash agent

Solr has an ELK equivalent, called SILK. Actually uses most of the same components (Banana=Kibana for Solr, etc): http://www.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-silk/

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0 pointsdidip11y ago0 comments

* Kibana on ElasticSearch. This is huge. You get a polished Search & Graphing UI with very little effort.

* Much more approachable config.

* Its clustering is easier to setup.

* Eventhough logstash is a bit heavy for my taste, the whole ELK stack is really nice for aggregating server logs.

bbq11y ago

Agreed about logstash being too heavy for your app servers. It would be nice to have the functionality in a trim, native binary.

As things are, one can always direct an app sever's syslog to a logging fleet running logstash (or elasticsearch running embedded logstash): http://cookbook.logstash.net/recipes/rsyslog-agent/

tveita11y ago

I think that's what Heka is supposed to be.

It looks pretty promising, but I have yet to meet anyone who uses it.

bbq11y ago

Oh, that looks very nice. Neat to embed Lua as a sandboxed plugin environment.

Re: logstash too heavy

That's what logstash-forwarder[1] (formerly lumberjack) is for. It's in Go, not Java.

caw11y ago

I use beaver, which is a python variant of the logstash agent

Solr has an ELK equivalent, called SILK. Actually uses most of the same components (Banana=Kibana for Solr, etc): http://www.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-silk/

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