I got the impression that I can achieve similar (or better) results with logstash and its interval exec input [1] as well as the usual logs, events and perf cou

I got the impression that I can achieve similar (or better) results with logstash and its interval exec input [1] as well as the usual logs, events and perf counters, etc. And it has nice Kibana interface [2] on top of elasticsearch. [1] http://logstash.net/docs/1.2.1/inputs/exec http://logstash.net/docs/1.2.1/inputs/exec [2] http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/ http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/