Ask HN: Cassandra for Log Management

[ishbits]

I'm looking at use Cassandra to store and index logs, particular those based around security events source from syslog and custom agents.

Anyone gone down this path and found Cassandra to be the wrong tool for the job? It's replication is really the attractive item for me.

[imperialWicket]

I haven't tried it (EDIT: it = cassandra), but what's wrong with Logstash + ElasticSearch? You get a lot out of the box with Logstash, and you could always push the community to build a Cassandra output plugin (or build it yourself) if you have serious reasons for Cassandra vs. ElasticSearch. Though Kibana is a great interface for log searching and is designed to interface with ES.

[ishbits]

Thanks. I had not considered ElasticSearch but already ruled out Logstash for various reasons. ElasticSearch looks like the perfect starting point, gives me 90% of what I need.