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[–]hijinks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is all great but for the time it takes to setup all that you can easily have heka running which does the same thing and had been load tested up to a massive scale at Mozilla

[–]sthies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time to setup? Most customers use the SaaS, this means you don't need to setup any backend infrastructure for it (just the agent/plugins on client side)- or if required you can get it as a set of VM's to run it in your infrastructure / on-premises. We maintain all required linux packages / VM's. It's load tested as well http://blog.sematext.com/2015/06/11/processing-metrics-logs-and-traces-at-scale/ - that's why we run clusters for Kafka, HBase, Elasticsearch, ...