Specialized Syslog Collector for Metrics via Syslog?

[jblaine]

I am looking for feedback on the following idea:

http://www.kickflop.net/blog/2012/03/24/specialized-syslog-collector-for-metrics-via-syslog/

Post here or at the blog, whatever suits you.  All comments welcome.

[jblaine]

The proof of concept implementation (success!) is documented here:

http://www.kickflop.net/blog/2012/03/30/any-metric-graphing-with-graphite-and-syslog/ 

Always enjoy feedback of any kind. Thanks to those who replied at the previous

blog entry, coming from the below devops-toolchain post!