Event-driven network automation

I have just skimmed the article, but even from this short contact I could see the nice idea of passing structured logs through a data bus and reacting to events found on this bus. This is something distinct from all the approaches people use around the world.

This is how I think monitoring and log collection should work like. I'm not convinced that Salt is the correct tool for being a data bus, but there aren't many tools that can be used this way as a central subsystem of a monitoring system, so whatever works is OK, I guess.