9 open source logging tools and how to use them with New Relic

Managing logs in increasingly complex applications can be challenging, prompting the use of open-source logging tools that can be combined with observability platforms like New Relic to enhance log management and observability. This blog post explores various top open-source logging tools like OpenTelemetry, Logstash, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Rsyslog, Syslog-ng, Graylog, Nagios, and Grafana Loki, which facilitate tasks such as log data import, parsing, transformation, filtering, and exportation. These tools offer customization, flexibility, and scalability, allowing organizations to centralize, standardize, and structure their log data effectively. Moreover, they can obfuscate sensitive information and make logs more readable before being forwarded to New Relic. By integrating these tools with New Relic, users can achieve a comprehensive observability solution that supports automatic and custom instrumentation, thereby enabling better monitoring and analysis of application performance.