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+title: Logging tools comparisons - logstash
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+# Logging tools comparison
+
+The information below is provided as "best effort" and is not strictly intended
+as a complete source of truth. If the information below is unclear or incorrect, please
+email the logstash-users list (or send a pull request with the fix) :)
+
+Where feasible, this document will also provide information on how you can use
+logstash with these other projects.
+
+# logstash
+
+Primary goal: Make log/event data and analytics accessible.
+
+Overview: Where your logs come from, how you store them, or what you do with
+them is up to you. Logstash exists to help make such actions easier and faster.
+
+It provides you a simple event pipeline for taking events and logs from any
+input, manipulating them with filters, and sending them to any output. Inputs
+can be files, network, message brokers, etc. Filters are date and string
+parsers, grep-like, etc. Outputs are data stores (elasticsearch, mongodb, etc),
+message systems (amqp, stomp, etc), network (tcp, syslog), etc.
+
+# graylog2
+
+<http://graylog2.org/>
+
+TBD
+
+You can use graylog2 with logstash by using the 'gelf' output to send logstash
+events to a graylog2 server. This gives you logstash's excellent input and
+filter features while still being able to use the graylog2 web interface.
+
+# whoops
+
+<http://www.whoopsapp.com/>
+
+TBD
+
+A logstash output to whoops is coming soon - <https://logstash.jira.com/browse/LOGSTASH-133>
+
+# flume
+
+<https://github.com/cloudera/flume/wiki>
+
+Flume is primarily a transport system aimed at reliably copying logs from
+application servers to HDFS.
+
+You can use it with logstash by having a syslog sink configured to shoot logs
+at a logstash syslog input.
+
+# scribe
+
+TBD

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