Where did you get the idea that message transporter is a syslog derivative? syslog is meant to collect logs from daemons, which typically run locally. Remote lo

Where did you get the idea that message transporter is a syslog derivative? syslog is meant to collect logs from daemons, which typically run locally. Remote logging (a.k.a. 514/udp) does not make syslog a general purpose transport. Fluentd, on the other hand, does very little to handle logs. It receives, processes and forwards structured messages. Those can be logs, of course, once you apply liblognorm or grok, but it's far from be the only thing. I wouldn't use, for example, syslog to transport monitoring data or inventory, but Fluentd matches the task very well.