Same here, fluentd is much better, performance wise. But then I had to give ES more RAM because it couldn't take the hammering. In fact, increasing the throug

Same here, fluentd is much better, performance wise. But then I had to give ES more RAM because it couldn't take the hammering. In fact, increasing the throughput to ES was causing some pretty spectacular crashes, with the /var/log partition at 100% because of the verbosity of the dumps.