diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6d5dbd6..0aa60fe 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ func main() {
 			Checkpoint:  &c,
 			Emitter:     &e,
 			Filter:      &f,
+			Logger:      log.New(os.Stdout, "KINESIS: ", log.Ldate|log.Ltime|log.Lshortfile),
 			StreamName:  cfg.Kinesis.InputStream,
 			Transformer: &t,
 		}
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ func main() {
 			Checkpoint:  &c,
 			Emitter:     &e,
 			Filter:      &f,
+			Logger:      log.New(os.Stdout, "KINESIS: ", log.Ldate|log.Ltime|log.Lshortfile),
 			StreamName:  cfg.Kinesis.OutputStream,
 			Transformer: &t,
 		}
diff --git a/logger.go b/logger.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..916807f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logger.go
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package connector
+
+// Logger sends pipeline info and errors to logging endpoint. The logger could be
+// used to send to STDOUT, Syslog, or any number of distributed log collecting platforms.
+type Logger interface {
+	Fatalf(format string, v ...interface{})
+	Printf(format string, v ...interface{})
+}
diff --git a/pipeline.go b/pipeline.go
index 14d4198..d0d7911 100644
--- a/pipeline.go
+++ b/pipeline.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package connector
 
 import (
-	"log"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/sendgridlabs/go-kinesis"
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ type Pipeline struct {
 	Checkpoint  Checkpoint
 	Emitter     Emitter
 	Filter      Filter
+	Logger      Logger
 	StreamName  string
 	Transformer Transformer
 }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func (p Pipeline) ProcessShard(ksis *kinesis.Kinesis, shardID string) {
 	shardInfo, err := ksis.GetShardIterator(args)
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatalf("GetShardIterator ERROR: %v\n", err)
+		p.Logger.Fatalf("GetShardIterator ERROR: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
 	shardIterator := shardInfo.ShardIterator
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func (p Pipeline) ProcessShard(ksis *kinesis.Kinesis, shardID string) {
 		recordSet, err := ksis.GetRecords(args)
 
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatalf("GetRecords ERROR: %v\n", err)
+			p.Logger.Fatalf("GetRecords ERROR: %v\n", err)
 		}
 
 		if len(recordSet.Records) > 0 {
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func (p Pipeline) ProcessShard(ksis *kinesis.Kinesis, shardID string) {
 				data := v.GetData()
 
 				if err != nil {
-					log.Printf("GetData ERROR: %v\n", err)
+					p.Logger.Printf("GetData ERROR: %v\n", err)
 					continue
 				}
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ func (p Pipeline) ProcessShard(ksis *kinesis.Kinesis, shardID string) {
 				}
 			}
 		} else if recordSet.NextShardIterator == "" || shardIterator == recordSet.NextShardIterator || err != nil {
-			log.Printf("NextShardIterator ERROR: %v\n", err)
+			p.Logger.Printf("NextShardIterator ERROR: %v\n", err)
 			break
 		} else {
 			time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
diff --git a/redshift_basic_emitter.go b/redshift_basic_emitter.go
index 7c48d22..e61c3c9 100644
--- a/redshift_basic_emitter.go
+++ b/redshift_basic_emitter.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
-	"log"
 	"os"
 
 	// Postgres package is used when sql.Open is called
@@ -14,38 +13,39 @@ import (
 // RedshiftEmitter is an implementation of Emitter that buffered batches of records into Redshift one by one.
 // It first emits records into S3 and then perfors the Redshift JSON COPY command. S3 storage of buffered
 // data achieved using the S3Emitter. A link to jsonpaths must be provided when configuring the struct.
-type RedshiftBasicEmtitter struct {
+type RedshiftBasicEmitter struct {
 	Delimiter string
 	Format    string
 	Jsonpaths string
+	Logger    Logger
 	S3Bucket  string
 	TableName string
 }
 
 // Emit is invoked when the buffer is full. This method leverages the S3Emitter and
 // then issues a copy command to Redshift data store.
-func (e RedshiftBasicEmtitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
+func (e RedshiftBasicEmitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
 	s3Emitter := S3Emitter{S3Bucket: e.S3Bucket}
 	s3Emitter.Emit(b, t)
 	s3File := s3Emitter.S3FileName(b.FirstSequenceNumber(), b.LastSequenceNumber())
 	db, err := sql.Open("postgres", os.Getenv("REDSHIFT_URL"))
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
+		e.Logger.Fatalf("sql.Open ERROR: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
 	_, err = db.Exec(e.copyStatement(s3File))
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
+		e.Logger.Fatalf("db.Exec ERROR: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
-	fmt.Printf("Redshift load completed.\n")
+	e.Logger.Printf("Redshift load completed.\n")
 	db.Close()
 }
 
 // Creates the SQL copy statement issued to Redshift cluster.
-func (e RedshiftBasicEmtitter) copyStatement(s3File string) string {
+func (e RedshiftBasicEmitter) copyStatement(s3File string) string {
 	b := new(bytes.Buffer)
 	b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("COPY %v ", e.TableName))
 	b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("FROM 's3://%v%v' ", e.S3Bucket, s3File))
diff --git a/redshift_basic_emitter_test.go b/redshift_basic_emitter_test.go
index 7d993a1..f5f790d 100644
--- a/redshift_basic_emitter_test.go
+++ b/redshift_basic_emitter_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 func TestCopyStatement(t *testing.T) {
-	e := RedshiftBasicEmtitter{
+	e := RedshiftBasicEmitter{
 		Delimiter: ",",
 		S3Bucket:  "test_bucket",
 		TableName: "test_table",
diff --git a/redshift_manifest_emitter.go b/redshift_manifest_emitter.go
index 36f0137..ed585f2 100644
--- a/redshift_manifest_emitter.go
+++ b/redshift_manifest_emitter.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"log"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ type RedshiftManifestEmitter struct {
 	FileTable     string
 	Format        string
 	Jsonpaths     string
+	Logger        Logger
 	S3Bucket      string
 	SecretKey     string
 }
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func (e RedshiftManifestEmitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
 	db, err := sql.Open("postgres", os.Getenv("REDSHIFT_URL"))
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
+		e.Logger.Fatalf("sql.Open ERROR: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
 	// Aggregate file paths as strings
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func (e RedshiftManifestEmitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
 	_, err = db.Exec(c)
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
+		e.Logger.Fatalf("db.Exec ERROR: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
 	// Insert file paths into File Names table
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ func (e RedshiftManifestEmitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
 	_, err = db.Exec(i)
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
+		e.Logger.Fatalf("db.Exec ERROR: %v\n", err)
 	}
 
-	log.Printf("[%v] copied to Redshift", manifestFileName)
+	e.Logger.Printf("[%v] copied to Redshift", manifestFileName)
 	db.Close()
 }
 
diff --git a/s3_emitter.go b/s3_emitter.go
index 69a29c6..e141c54 100644
--- a/s3_emitter.go
+++ b/s3_emitter.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package connector
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
-	"log"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/crowdmob/goamz/aws"
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 // from the first and last sequence numbers of the records contained in that file separated by a
 // dash. This struct requires the configuration of an S3 bucket and endpoint.
 type S3Emitter struct {
+	Logger   Logger
 	S3Bucket string
 }
 
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ func (e S3Emitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
 	err := bucket.Put(s3File, buffer.Bytes(), "text/plain", s3.Private, s3.Options{})
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("S3Put ERROR: %v\n", err)
+		e.Logger.Fatalf("S3Put ERROR: %v\n", err.Error())
 	} else {
-		log.Printf("[%v] records emitted to [%s]\n", b.NumRecordsInBuffer(), e.S3Bucket)
+		e.Logger.Printf("[%v] records emitted to [%s]\n", b.NumRecordsInBuffer(), e.S3Bucket)
 	}
 }
diff --git a/s3_manifest_emitter.go b/s3_manifest_emitter.go
index 756d760..59aa565 100644
--- a/s3_manifest_emitter.go
+++ b/s3_manifest_emitter.go
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package connector
 
 import (
-	"log"
-
 	"github.com/sendgridlabs/go-kinesis"
 )
 
@@ -12,6 +10,7 @@ type S3ManifestEmitter struct {
 	OutputStream string
 	S3Bucket     string
 	Ksis         *kinesis.Kinesis
+	Logger       Logger
 }
 
 func (e S3ManifestEmitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
@@ -30,8 +29,8 @@ func (e S3ManifestEmitter) Emit(b Buffer, t Transformer) {
 	_, err := e.Ksis.PutRecord(args)
 
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("PutRecord ERROR: %v", err)
+		e.Logger.Printf("PutRecord ERROR: %v", err)
 	} else {
-		log.Printf("[%s] emitted to [%s]", b.FirstSequenceNumber(), e.OutputStream)
+		e.Logger.Printf("[%s] emitted to [%s]", b.FirstSequenceNumber(), e.OutputStream)
 	}
 }