I went looking for a Syslog Collector, written in Go, which would stream to Kafka. I couldn't find any, so put one together myself -- others might be interested. It optionally performs basic parsing of an RFC5424 header too, before streaming the messages to Kafka. As always, YMMV.
https://github.com/otoolep/gollector Thanks to the guys at Shopify for sarama, which made it easy enough to put this together. Philip
