The unsung heroes of log analysis are the log collectors. They are the hard-working daemons that run on servers to pull server metrics, parse loogs, and transport them to systems like Elasticsearch or PostgreSQL. While visualization tools like Kibana or re:dash bask in the glory, log collectors’s routing making it all possible. Here, we will pit the two of the most popular data collectors in the o
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