[gog]

Could you give more details about why Fluentd and not Beats + Logstash on the other end? I don't like the idea of running Ruby on every machine just to ship logs somewhere.

Beats are pretty lightweight and for what I used them they work.

[mehblahwhatevs]

Many people use the ELK stack which is Logstash. I imagine you can swap out Fluentd for Logstash.