Collecting Metrics through Syslog

Hi all,

I was hoping to gather custom metrics from a particular server (specifically, channel count, load average, and active calls) every 60 seconds (just a snapshot of the current metrics). Would it make sense to send these statistics over syslog to Solarwinds, then create a report based on the syslog messages? We want to be able to create a table of all the metrics gathered.

If anyone knows of a better solution, please let me know.

Thank you,

Matthew Shafran