What is Rsyslog?
It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. It is able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.
Rsyslog is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.
Rsyslog is an open source tool with 2K GitHub stars and 630 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rsyslog's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Rsyslog?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Rsyslog in their tech stacks, including DigitalOcean, VisualVest, and Kartaca.
Developers
30 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rsyslog.
Rsyslog Integrations
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Splunk, and Coralogix are some of the popular tools that integrate with Rsyslog. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Rsyslog.
Rsyslog's Features
- Multi-threading
- TCP, SSL, TLS, RELP
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and more
- Filter any part of syslog message
Rsyslog Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Rsyslog?
Logstash
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.
Fluentd
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.
Filebeat
It helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
