How Logstash is different than Kafka

Question

What is the difference between Log stash and Kafka? Which one is better and how?

Answer 1

Kafka

•     Kafka is used in real-time streaming data architectures for providing real-time analytics.
•     Kafka is a scalable, durable, fast and fault tolerant publish-subsribe messaging system
•     Kafka has higher throughput, replication and reliability characteristics.
•     Kafka can be used as an input plugin
•     Kafka can work with Spark Streaming, Flume/Flafka, Storm,  Flink, HBase and Spark
•     Kafka is powerful than Logstash.

Logstash

•     Logstash is an open-source, data processing pipeline that allows to collect data from a number of resources, transform it and send it on the desired location
•     Logstash is a tool to collect, process and forward events and log messages.
•     It has pre-built filters to transform common data-types, indexing them in elastic-search and start querying without building the custom data transformation pipelines
•     It has flexible plugin architecture with over 200 plugins available on Github. You can also create one if none suits your requirements.