Don't get too excited about Riemann. It's a stream processing engine, not data transport. It has its uses, but not for shipping logs. syslog-ng and its competi

Don't get too excited about Riemann. It's a stream processing engine, not data transport. It has its uses, but not for shipping logs. syslog-ng and its competitor, rsyslog, are fine, but they are concentrated around logs specifically. Fluentd (and logstash) can be used to transport other data, too, like monitoring or inventory.