README.md
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7Flowgger is a fast, simple and lightweight data collector written in Rust.
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9It reads log entries over a given protocol, extracts them, decodes them using a
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11the result into a remote data store.
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13Flowgger is designed to be:
14- Paranoid: it carefully validates input data to prevent injection of
15malformed/incomplete records down the chain.
16- Safe: written in Rust, without any `unsafe` code.
17- Fast: even though messages are systematically parsed and validated, Flowgger
18is orders of magnitude faster than Logstash and Fluentd.
19- Standalone: it comes as a single executable file, and doesn't require a JVM.
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21Flowgger supports common input types: stdin, UDP, TCP, TLS and Redis,
22as well as multiple input formats: JSON (GELF), LTSV, Cap'n Proto and
23RFC5424. Normalized messages can be sent to Kafka, Graylog, to downstream
24Flowgger servers, or to other log collectors for further processing.
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26# [Jump to the Flowgger documentation](https://github.com/awslabs/flowgger/wiki)
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