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Agreed about logstash being too heavy for your app servers. It would be nice to have the functionality in a trim, native binary.

As things are, one can always direct an app sever's syslog to a logging fleet running logstash (or elasticsearch running embedded logstash): http://cookbook.logstash.net/recipes/rsyslog-agent/

I think that's what Heka is supposed to be.

It looks pretty promising, but I have yet to meet anyone who uses it.

Oh, that looks very nice. Neat to embed Lua as a sandboxed plugin environment.

Re: logstash too heavy

That's what logstash-forwarder[1] (formerly lumberjack) is for. It's in Go, not Java.

I use beaver, which is a python variant of the logstash agent

Solr has an ELK equivalent, called SILK. Actually uses most of the same components (Banana=Kibana for Solr, etc): http://www.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-silk/