Logstash

Logstash

Open source tool


What is Logstash?.

Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. It comes with a wide range of plugins that makes it possible to easily configure it to collect, process and forward data in many different architectures.


Maintained by License Type Popular Examples Support Updates Developer Skills
Elastic Apache License 2.0 elastic.co/support
Often Compared to Testing Accessibility Maintained by Repository
fluentd, kafka Elastic



  Pros:
  • Open source and completely free to download and use.
  • Actively developed. The latest update (version 6.2.3) was released on March 2018.
  • Installation is just four simple steps and a command line.
  Cons:
  • Memory Consumption is high.
  • Dependent on Java, which has its own problems with security vulnerabilities.