We performed a comparison between Grafana Loki and Logstash based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."The best feature of Grafana Loki is that it integrates well with our other tool."
"The tool can be used in multi-cluster environments."
"The log collection feature is good and the solution is easily understandable. v"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the tool's GUI. The solution's GUI is very user-friendly."
"I appreciate the capability to process logs from microservices and seamlessly integrate them into Grafana."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source tool that is stable and flexible."
"We are using Grafana Loki as a database for real-time metrics."
"Loki also utilizes the same service discovery mechanism as used by Prometheus. So, whatever labeled metadata you see in Prometheus, you have the exact same metadata in the Loki system. Given this level of intricacy and the attempt to address these challenges, I firmly believe that Loki deserves praise for the work."
"I can collect logs from various data sources, including hardware."
"The correlation of requests is not simple in Grafana Loki and can be improved."
"We had a well-structured dashboard with a functional query. However, an issue arose when the Kubernetes pod restarted. The statistics from our Grafana query would reset, dropping to zero and starting anew. This was particularly noticeable with linear graphs, which are expected to show consistent growth."
"The Docker container partition feature needs improvement as they do not reuse the space and goes into a pending state."
"We encountered certain limitations when it came to alerting, particularly when dealing with specific data sources."
"Visualization-wise, Grafana Loki's dashboard looks a little outdated compared to other open-source visualization tools like Chronograf."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features that need improvement."
"In Grafana Loki, the creation of metrics is not so easy, making it an area that could be made easier."
"Enhancing speed could be a game-changer, and while it might vary depending on the application, it's a factor worth exploring."
"The product needs to improve its compatibility."
Grafana Loki is ranked 13th in Log Management with 12 reviews while Logstash is ranked 35th in Log Management with 1 review. Grafana Loki is rated 8.0, while Logstash is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Grafana Loki writes "Effective for Logging, recovery from node failures is fast and single UI supports metrics, logs, and even tracing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Logstash writes "Helps to collect logs from various data sources, including hardware". Grafana Loki is most compared with Graylog, Wazuh, syslog-ng and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Logstash is most compared with syslog-ng and Cribl Stream.
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