Data Acquisition and Processing Made Easy

Heka is a tool for collecting and collating data from a number of different sources, performing "in-flight" processing of collected data, and delivering the results to any number of destinations for further analysis.

More details can be found on the ReadTheDocs sites for the Heka project and for the Heka daemon, and lower level package documentation can be found on GoDoc.

Heka is written in Go, but Heka plugins can be written in either Go or Lua. The easiest way to install Heka is using Heka-Build, which will build the correct version of Go, set up a Go environment, and install all required dependencies. Heka-Build also provides a mechanism for easily integrating external plug-in packages into the generated hekad.