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Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 15, 2025 · Cloud Native

Why LoongCollector Beats iLogtail and Open‑Source Log Agents by Up to 10×

In a series of controlled benchmarks on an Alibaba Cloud ECS instance, the next‑generation LoongCollector log‑collection agent demonstrated dramatically higher throughput, lower CPU usage, and more efficient memory consumption than its predecessor iLogtail and popular open‑source alternatives such as FluentBit, Vector, and Filebeat across multiple log formats and traffic levels.

Cloud NativeLoongCollectoriLogtail
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Why LoongCollector Beats iLogtail and Open‑Source Log Agents by Up to 10×
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 8, 2025 · Cloud Native

Optimizing Global Log Collection with Alibaba Cloud iLogtail and LoongCollector

This guide explains how enterprises can reliably and cost‑effectively gather logs from distributed overseas environments into Alibaba Cloud Log Service (SLS) by selecting the right network path, leveraging iLogtail/LoongCollector agents, applying compression, filtering, multi‑region routing, and using CloudLens for monitoring and cost control.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeLoongCollector
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Optimizing Global Log Collection with Alibaba Cloud iLogtail and LoongCollector
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Apr 1, 2025 · Cloud Native

How We Boosted Multi-line Log Collection Speed from 90 MB/s to 350 MB/s

This article details a real‑world case where massive multi‑line log volumes overwhelmed iLogtail, explains the performance bottlenecks caused by full‑line regex matching, describes the switch to prefix‑only matching and IngestProcessor, and shows how these changes lifted throughput from under 100 MB/s to over 300 MB/s while halving CPU usage.

Performance OptimizationiLogtaillog collection
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How We Boosted Multi-line Log Collection Speed from 90 MB/s to 350 MB/s
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Mar 27, 2025 · Operations

Performance Optimization and Architecture of iLogTail for High‑Scale Log Collection

Didi replaced its legacy agent with Alibaba’s open‑source iLogTail, re‑architected it to use a shared thread‑pool and SIMD‑accelerated parsing, rewrote critical plugins in C++ and added robust Kafka retry logic, achieving over twice the throughput while cutting CPU usage by more than half and maintaining near‑zero latency at massive scale.

C++KafkaPerformance Optimization
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Performance Optimization and Architecture of iLogTail for High‑Scale Log Collection
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Nov 13, 2024 · Cloud Native

Master Log Processing with iLogtail SPL: From Native Plugins to Advanced Transformations

This article introduces SLS's SPL (SLS Processing Language) for iLogtail, compares its three processing modes, details feature differences, highlights the advantages of iLogtail 2.0 + SPL, and provides step‑by‑step SPL examples covering regex, delimiter, JSON parsing, desensitization, field addition, encoding, mathematical operations, URL handling, and logical comparisons.

Log ProcessingSPLdata transformation
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Master Log Processing with iLogtail SPL: From Native Plugins to Advanced Transformations
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Nov 13, 2024 · Cloud Native

Can iLogtail Replace Logstash? Exploring Performance and Ops Challenges

This article examines the traditional ELK stack, highlights iLogtail's performance advantages over Filebeat and Logstash, analyzes why iLogtail could not previously replace them, and details the five key engineering solutions—ranging from plugin optimization to Config Server disaster recovery—that enable iLogtail to serve as a full‑stack log collection platform in cloud‑native environments.

Cloud NativeELKFilebeat
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Can iLogtail Replace Logstash? Exploring Performance and Ops Challenges
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 16, 2024 · Cloud Native

Master Log Processing with iLogtail SPL: From Native Plugins to Advanced Transformations

This guide explains how iLogtail 2.0 introduces the SPL (SLS Processing Language) to unify log and time‑series data handling, compares native, extension, and SPL processing modes, and provides step‑by‑step SPL examples for regex, delimiter, JSON, desensitization, field addition, encoding, URL parsing, and mathematical operations.

Cloud NativeLog ProcessingSPL
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Master Log Processing with iLogtail SPL: From Native Plugins to Advanced Transformations
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 11, 2024 · Cloud Native

Can iLogtail Replace Logstash? A Deep Dive into Performance and Architecture

This article examines the traditional ELK stack, compares iLogtail with Filebeat and Logstash in real‑world performance tests, analyzes why iLogtail could not previously replace Logstash, and presents five concrete engineering solutions that enable iLogtail to become a viable, high‑performance alternative for log collection and processing.

Cloud NativeELKObservability
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Can iLogtail Replace Logstash? A Deep Dive into Performance and Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 26, 2024 · Cloud Native

How iLogtail Evolved: From Simple Log Collector to Cloud‑Native Observability Platform

This article chronicles iLogtail's 13‑year journey—from its 2013 inception as a basic log collector to a fully open‑source, cloud‑native observability platform—highlighting technical milestones, emerging trends in log agents, architectural innovations, performance breakthroughs, and future directions.

Cloud NativeObservabilityiLogtail
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How iLogtail Evolved: From Simple Log Collector to Cloud‑Native Observability Platform
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 26, 2024 · Cloud Native

How iLogtail Simplifies Container Log Collection Across Kubernetes Runtimes

This article explains Kubernetes container runtimes, the CRI and OCI standards, compares Docker, containerd, CRI‑O and runc, outlines the challenges of log collection in K8s, and shows how open‑source collectors like Filebeat and Fluent Bit as well as iLogtail's daemonset and sidecar modes provide flexible, enriched logging solutions.

FilebeatFluent Bitcontainer-runtime
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How iLogtail Simplifies Container Log Collection Across Kubernetes Runtimes
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Aug 7, 2024 · Operations

How iLogtail Achieves Million‑Scale Observability with SRE Practices

This article details how Alibaba Cloud's iLogtail agent, serving tens of thousands of hosts and containers, overcomes unique stability challenges through a comprehensive SRE approach that spans design, development, testing, gray‑release, operations, and customer‑support, ultimately boosting reliability and reducing incident rates.

Cloud NativeObservabilitySRE
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How iLogtail Achieves Million‑Scale Observability with SRE Practices
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
May 29, 2024 · Cloud Native

Why iLogtail Needed a Complete Architecture Overhaul and How It Was Done

This article explains the evolution of iLogtail from a single‑file collector to a multi‑language, plugin‑based observability pipeline, outlines the motivations for refactoring, describes the new unified data model, plugin abstractions, pipeline design, configuration management, hot‑reload mechanisms, and the separation of enterprise and open‑source code, providing a comprehensive view of the architectural upgrade.

CConfiguration ManagementGolang
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Why iLogtail Needed a Complete Architecture Overhaul and How It Was Done
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
May 29, 2024 · Big Data

How SPL Boosts iLogtail 2.0: Combining Performance and Flexibility in Log Processing

This article traces the evolution of streaming processing languages, compares iLogtail's native and extended pipeline modes, and demonstrates how the new SPL syntax in iLogtail 2.0 delivers high‑performance, flexible log and time‑series data processing with unified, SQL‑like commands and interactive debugging tools.

Log AnalyticsSPLdata pipelines
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How SPL Boosts iLogtail 2.0: Combining Performance and Flexibility in Log Processing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 15, 2024 · Fundamentals

Unlocking High-Performance Multithreading: Lock-Free Techniques in iLogtail

This article explores the fundamentals of multithreaded programming, comparing traditional lock-based synchronization with advanced lock-free techniques, and demonstrates how iLogtail implements thread models, memory barriers, atomic operations, spin locks, double-buffering, and deferred reclamation to achieve scalable, high-performance concurrency.

CMemory ModeliLogtail
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Unlocking High-Performance Multithreading: Lock-Free Techniques in iLogtail
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 20, 2024 · Cloud Native

What’s New in iLogtail 2.0? A Deep Dive into the Updated Pipeline Architecture

iLogtail 2.0 replaces the monolithic, file‑oriented design of its predecessor with a modular pipeline configuration, new input/processor/output plugins, a refreshed API, SPL processing, finer‑grained parsing controls, nanosecond‑level timestamps, enhanced observability, and performance improvements, while providing compatibility guidance for both commercial and open‑source editions.

APICloud NativeObservability
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What’s New in iLogtail 2.0? A Deep Dive into the Updated Pipeline Architecture
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 17, 2023 · Operations

Mastering Observability Data Collection in Kubernetes with iLogtail

This article explains the types and value of observability data, the characteristics and data‑collection requirements of Kubernetes deployments, the challenges of large‑scale log, metric and trace ingestion, and practical solutions such as DaemonSet vs Sidecar, ConfigServer, CRD automation, serverless support, and eBPF integration.

iLogtaillog collection
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Mastering Observability Data Collection in Kubernetes with iLogtail
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 9, 2022 · Information Security

How to Build a Comprehensive Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Security Monitoring System

This article examines the evolving security risks of cloud‑native architectures, explains why traditional perimeter defenses are insufficient, introduces zero‑trust principles for Kubernetes, outlines common K8s threat vectors, and presents a complete data‑collection and monitoring solution based on the open‑source iLogtail agent.

KubernetesObservabilityZero Trust
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How to Build a Comprehensive Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Security Monitoring System