Some times you should just use Graylog (kafka+elastic) ,especially if you are already comfortable with Elastic. You get to scale,retain and monitor your data in

Some times you should just use Graylog (kafka+elastic) ,especially if you are already comfortable with Elastic. You get to scale,retain and monitor your data in addition to stream processing. If I have fairly small Go webapp that needs stream processing, I would just use Graylog instead of trying to use Kafka directly.