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So logging in to a server to check a logfile (assuming i dont or cant do centralized logging) is considered anti-devops ? Edit: Sorry responded to wrong parent

• sametmax 10y ago
  It's just a matter of scale. If you are at the scale of netflix, vm are probably too complex black boxes, and logs output somewhere else anyway. Plus the problem may involve the interraction of several vm, or the network, or other composants together.
• saryant 10y ago
  At this scale, you basically have to have centralized logging. When you have thousands of parallel instances of a single application, searching logs box-by-box just isn't practical. Consider also that if you're elastically scaling EC2 instances and you need logs off an instance that's since been terminated, too late! That disk is gone. So again, you need a central log service.
  • vacri 10y ago
    Parsing logs isn't the only way to troubleshoot.
    • flukus 10y ago
      It's not even the best way, just sometimes it's the only way.