Thanks for this great response. To give more color on my use case, my goal is to ship logs off the server and to some central log aggregation platform. That cou

Thanks for this great response. To give more color on my use case, my goal is to ship logs off the server and to some central log aggregation platform. That could be self-managed (e.g. Elasticsearch) or hosted (e.g. SumoLogic, Loggly). In many cases, I'd want to get those logs from Docker containers and include metadata on each container so I know, e.g. what app is running, the container Id, on what host, etc. Traditionally, tools like logstash, fluentd, and heka meet these needs. It doesn't sounds like Telegraf is quite ready to support this use case in full, but could certainly head in that direction.