I would look into the elasticsearch native destination if you are not already.
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From: Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca>
Date: 10/16/17 11:01 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: Re: [syslog
I have a perl script that collects some stats and logs them to syslog again. The syslog stream gets sent to ES, so they end up there, but as a syslog line, not a specific statistic item for things like grafana.