[stephenr]

It isn't new and shiny and its available from distro packages, so it's not worth the attention of the cool kids.

If you don't need to curl|sh from a .io (or .sh) domain to install it, it's not worth using apparently.

[dozzie]

Just for information, I generally agree with what you said here, except in this particular case rsyslog is not a generic data bus, and Fluentd and logstash are, so they're useful on their own merit. They're just often used as merely log transports, which overlaps with rsyslog.