syslog
5 Logstash Alternatives [2025 Review]
When it comes to centralizing logs to Elasticsearch, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. People hear about it even if it’s not clear what it does:
Recipe: How to integrate rsyslog with Kafka and Logstash
This recipe is similar to the previous rsyslog + Redis + Logstash one, except that we’ll use Kafka as a central buffer and connecting point instead of Redis. You’ll have
What is Syslog: Daemons, Message Formats and Protocols
Pretty much everyone's heard about syslog: with its roots in the 80s, it's still used for a lot of the log management done today. Mostly because of its long history, syslog
Recipe: Apache Logs + rsyslog (parsing) + Elasticsearch
More than two years ago we posted a recipe on how to centralize syslog in Elasticsearch in order to search and analyze them with Kibana, all by using only rsyslog.
Recipe: rsyslog + Redis + Logstash
OK, so you want to hook up rsyslog with Logstash. If you don't remember why you want that, let me give you a few hints: Logstash can do lots of