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+# discord-stats-bot
+
+This is basically a personal project of mine in a effort to learn NodeJS and ELK.
+
+I wanted to create a bot for discord that would log it's usage to a centralised logging server. Essentially the bot is just logging usage to files, and logstash-forwarder is passing to ELK.
+
+You need the following modules to use this bot:
+ 
+- discordie
+- log4js
+
+```bash
+npm install discordie log4js
+```