Output Node.js logs to filesystem

I have a Splunk forwarder managing logs in my production servers, so I really just need to get the output of my node app into a file that Splunk is watching. What is the downside of simply doing the following in production:

node server.js > output.log

As oppose to handling the log output inside the node process with some sort of logging module...

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