Cut it out already...

you're mixing up a separate concept - streaming to a remote host vs streaming via a pipe on the filesystem

You said above, quote: but that introduces much larger problems and would in no way be compatible with the app rolling its log files.

Why would you have log-pipes, or log-files on your app-servers to begin with?

Syslog streaming has been a common approach since the ~70s i'd guess?

Then how come you're not doing it?

Hopefully, you see the irony in this.

All I'm seeing is a constant stream of arrogance that doesn't seem to be backed up. Also, the command that you wanted to helpfully point out is called "mkfifo" or "mknod".