Heka is really stupid to configure, really fast, and now deprecated... I've used it for log tailing and metrics forwarding extensively and can't recommend it en

Heka is really stupid to configure, really fast, and now deprecated... I've used it for log tailing and metrics forwarding extensively and can't recommend it enough if you need to use amqps out. If you don't need amqps out there are more modern, better supported projects.