This is great! -Jay
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Pierre-Yves Ritschard <p...@spootnik.org> wrote: > Hi list, > > Just a quick note to let you know that kafka support has now been merged in > collectd, which means that system and application metrics can directly be > produced on a topic from the collectd daemon. > > Additionally, syslog-ng will soon ship with a kafka producing module as > well, it will be part of the next release of the syslog-ng-incubator module > collection: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator. > > What this means is that there is now a very lightweight way to create a > infrastructure event stream on top of kafka, with known tools in the ops > world. > > I relied on the librdkafka library to provide kafka producing, which I can > recommend for C needs. > > - pyr