TUtukwme·Feb 23, 2015Submission
3 points · Open discussionelastic
logstash-forwarder
Go2013–2015
elastic / logstash-forwarder · Archived
logstash-forwarder
An experiment to cut logs in preparation for processing elsewhere. Replaced by Filebeat: https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/filebeat
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What it is
An experiment to cut logs in preparation for processing elsewhere. Replaced by Filebeat: https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/filebeat
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month6 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2013-02-17 19:59:49 UTC to 2015-02-23 01:49:33 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2013 | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesSince logstash was already mentioned, it's worth putting https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash-forwarder here, as the logstash team built it as a solution for logstash-type needs on systems that may not be able to support logstash itself.
In Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime dataRe: logstash too heavy
That's what logstash-forwarder[1] (formerly lumberjack) is for. It's in Go, not Java.
[1] https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash-forwarder
In Elasticsearch Raises $70 MillionLumberjack seems protocol-specific (https://github.com/jordansissel/lumberjack#future-protocol-d...), whereas Dendrite aims to be agnostic.
Most of the other log tailer/shippers are in java, so untenable for RAM-constrained environments. Dendrite also has an emphasis on structuring and re-emitting logs in e.g. json, rather than say, matching specific lines and sending email when you see them, or just forwarding all logs in their original format.
In Show HN: Dendrite, a golang log parserCould someone who has run this compare it to other log tailer/shipper programs like lumberjack (https://github.com/jordansissel/lumberjack) ?
In Show HN: Dendrite, a golang log parserHere's a few more to add to your list (not all SaaS)...
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--NOTES
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