At least looking at its current featureset it looks much closer like it wants to be Logstash or Apache Flume, but with an included frontend. They note the deep

At least looking at its current featureset it looks much closer like it wants to be Logstash or Apache Flume, but with an included frontend. They note the deep inspiration from statsd as well. Also all communication is over UDP at the moment, which could be bad for poor quality links, but probably OK for most servers. The main difference from just a log shipper is including a frontend web service to look at data, and a library to link in the app to deliver stats instead of using a more standard protocol like syslog / collectd / ganglia, etc. and having the server parse / ship it. So it's more of an integrated solution than combining different logging pieces.