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24 alternatives to Echopraxia, a better Java Logging API

I've been working on logging for a while and I've released and open sourced a new Java logging API I'm really happy with. Echopraxia [1] is a Java logging API like SLF4J, but built around structured logging, i.e. the basic log entry is a JSON object and log files are typically NDJSON. It also has conditions, context, and also has semantic and fluent logging options. Here's a Spring Boot Example [2]. And here's my blog post [3]. [1] https://github.com/tersesystems/echopraxia [2] https://github.com/tersesystems/echopraxia-spring-boot-example [3]…

Echopraxia is a Java logging API designed around structured logging, where log entries are JSON objects stored in NDJSON format. Built as an alternative to SLF4J, it offers conditions, context management, and both… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Echopraxia, a better Java Logging API launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    We just released a major upgrade to SigNoz with support for Logs management based on ClickHouse. Would love to get any feedback from the community here on what you think and any questions you may have for us Many big companies like Uber and Cloudflare have been shifting to ClickHouse as their main workhorse for Logs management seeing much better performance. for e.g Cloudflare recently shifted from Elastic to ClickHouse and are seeing 8x improvement in memory/cpu resource requirement in ingestion. This is our first release with Logs support and we have added support for: - Filtering…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Unlogged▲658

    Open Source tool for mocking, testing & optimising

    2024 · plugins.jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3IW

    https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j... This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand. Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records,…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Generate Spring Boot/Nest JS API's in minutes

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Timber.io▲318

    Log better. Solve problems faster.

    2017 · timber.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey guys, I'm building erlog to try and solve problems with logging. While trying to add logs to my application, I couldn't find any lightweight log platform which was easy to set up without adding tons of dependencies to my code, or configuring 10,000 files. ErLog is just a simple go web server which batch inserts json logs into an sqlite3 server. Through tuning sqlite3 and batching inserts, I find I can get around 8k log insertions/sec which is fast enough for small projects. This is just an MVP, and I plan to add more features once I talk to users. If anyone has any problems with…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    My immediate reaction to today's news that Splunk was being acquired was to comment in the HN discussion for that story: "I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in SQlite, which it then exposes to a very convenient web…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8DJ

    Hello HN, I’m Gaurav. Founder & CEO of Dassana. We are coming out of stealth today and would like to invite the community to give us a try. https://lake.dassana.io/ First, a bit of a backstory. I grew up with grep to search log files. The kind of person whose grep was aliased to grep -i. Then came along Splunk. It was a game-changer. For every single start-up I started (there are a few) I used Splunk and quite often we will run out of our ingestion quota. SumoLogic wasn’t cheaper either so we looked into DataDog. It was good until we started running issues with aggregate…

    2022 · its alternatives →

  9. 9AB

    Hello everyone, there are many log services available and this is my attempt at a better one. Most online logging tools feature convoluted UIs, arbitrary mandatory fields, questionable AI/insights, complex pricing, etc. I hope my application fixes most of these issues. It also has some nice features, such as automatic Geo IP checks and public dashboards. Although I've created lots of software, this is my first open source application (MIT license), the tutorial for selfhosting is hopefully sufficient! Most of my development career has been with C#, NodeJS and PHP. For this project I've…

    2025 · txtlog.net · its alternatives →

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    Log important application events with a single line of code

    2023 · pangea.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Documind is an open-source tool that turns documents into structured data using AI. What it does: - Extracts specific data from PDFs based on your custom schema - Returns clean, structured JSON that's ready to use - Works with just a PDF link + your schema definition Just run npm install documind to get started.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Logjack▲68

    A logging API

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp - GitHub - codr7/whirlog: a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14LA

    A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.

    2020 · logseq.com · its alternatives →

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    Fastest structured logging. Contribute to phuslu/log development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16IG

    Hi HN! I'm excited to share a project I've been working on for the past year: Docland. It is an API documentation browser that generates documentation on demand (through compilation, not LLMs) for Java packages. Instead of relying on Javadoc, the built-in doc generator, I created the engine from scratch to give the documentations a modern look, build fast search indexes, and enable link resolution to other packages. I built Docland because I constantly found it frustrating to locate and view API definitions when programming. You'd have to Google the function/class name, skip all the SEO…

    2024 · docland.io · its alternatives →

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    Provides a Kotlin/Java library to create a random json string - mangatmodi/RandomJson

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a small PoC Python project for web server access logs analyzing to classify and dynamically block bad bots, such as L7 (application-level) DDoS bots, web scrappers and so on. We'll be happy to gather initial feedback on usability and features, especialy from people having good or bad experience wit bots. *Requirements* The analyzer relies on 3 Tempesta FW specific features which you still can get with other HTTP servers or accelerators: 1. JA5 client fingerprinting (https://tempesta-tech.com/knowledge-base/Traffic-Filtering-b...). This is a HTTP and TLS layers…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We built Gonzo to make log analysis faster and friendlier in the terminal. Think of it like k9s for logs — a TUI that can ingest JSON, text, or OpenTelemetry (OTLP) logs, highlight and boil up patterns, and even run AI models locally or via API to summarize logs. We’re still iterating, so ideas and contributions are welcome!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20PB

    Hi HN, have been working on this as a side project, would appreciate any feedback :) LogUnify is built around schemas based on protobuf and all the events in LogUnify are structured. By schematizing events, we offer the following benefits: - Consistency: All the events across all platforms and languages are produced in a uniform way with the generated type-safe SDKs, which ensures data consistency from the root. - Shared Understanding: Event schemas with rich data types and metadata are self-explained, which enables different departments from developers to business stakeholders to share the…

    2023 · logunify.com · its alternatives →

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    Free defensive Log4Shell tools. Scan logs for CVE-2021-44228 JNDI exploitation attempts (including obfuscated payloads) and check whether a Log4j version is vulnerable.

    2021 · log4shell.tools · its alternatives →

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    🔈 Nicer CLIs foz lazy devs. Contribute to jesusprubio/leg development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23LA
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    Build, optimize, and act on telemetry data with Mezmo.

    2017 · docs.logdna.com · its alternatives →

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