it is worth noting there is a Node implementation of logstash. https://github.com/bpaquet/node-logstash https://github.com/bpaquet/node-logstash It is "logsta

it is worth noting there is a Node implementation of logstash. https://github.com/bpaquet/node-logstash https://github.com/bpaquet/node-logstash It is "logstash compatible" (at ElasticSearch, so it works with Kibana) and in my experience very easy to work with, and probably a lot lighter weight than the JRuby version.