I love Node-RED, I use it to collect data from all kinds of devices and shove it into a database. Plus it is a very visible solution, just go to the Node-RED ad

I love Node-RED, I use it to collect data from all kinds of devices and shove it into a database. Plus it is a very visible solution, just go to the Node-RED address and you can see all the things going on as opposed to some daemon or scripts running somewhere, hidden from view.