I know ;-) Hence my lawyer-ish choice of wording (default, module). HAProxy has some real nice features, especially the 1.8+ versions. We used to have configura

I know ;-) Hence my lawyer-ish choice of wording (default, module). HAProxy has some real nice features, especially the 1.8+ versions. We used to have configuration management tooling reconfigure and reload it, later on it get hot-reloads which was nice and then it got consul support so we could just feed consul and it all would work like magic. Love it. My point was more about logging something straight in to a RDBMS wasn't much of a default at any point in time. Earlier on it was too expensive, and later on better systems came along. Some systems have built in text analysis and time series data specifics, but why would you worry about those when you have ElasticSearch and Kibana for most generic setups. Even before that you have syslog and a lot of log parsing libraries that worked great (well, unless you used windows event logs which has pros and a lot of cons).