Re: Enterprise Level Logging

Hey guys,

I work on a medium-to-large scale distributed web application. Often issues come up that need trouble shooting. Currently, sys-admins have to grep logs on as many as 100 machines to find useful information. Of course this can be done via bash, but that is slow and error prone. I would like to implement an easier way.

It seems that there are three options:

1. Write logs over the network to some "central" location.
2. Write logs into a database
3. Develop some remote search capability to search or index all the logs

1 seems okay but there would have to be redundancy in that "central" location
2 would provide a performance hit
3 seems like the best, but the indexing capability may be complicated.

Does anyone know of any libraries that fit into 1, 2, or 3 (we use log4j, so compatibility would be nice).

I'd love to hear about how others have addressed this issue.

Anyway, love to hear thoughts on this!