In the previous recipe, we learned how to consolidate log messages from microservices into a Kafka topic using Log4J2 and Kafka. In this recipe, we will look at various options that we have to visualize our logs. There are several log-management systems available in the market at the moment. We will talk about few of them in this recipe.
There are several log-management tools, such as Splunk, Graylog2, and Loggly. Most of them nowadays come with a Kafka listener. However, at the time of writing this, Splunk does not have an official Kafka consumer. There are several third-partly plugins that you can install with Splunk to consume messages from Kafka topics.Graylog2 is another popular log-management tool that has picked up traction lately mostly because it is open source. It comes packed with tons of features. Though the interface is not very sophisticated, it gets the job done well. Graylog came with their own log format called...