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How are diagnostic logs not business critical? If you have an outage while your non-mission critical logs are offline what are you going to do?
by Sevii 5y ago
How are diagnostic logs not business critical? If you have an outage while your non-mission critical logs are offline what are you going to do?
- piaste 5y agoIf it's a live outage, we can still SSH into a machine and grep the console output / local rotating log files. (For that matter, I still prefer to do that when I'm just testing new stuff in dev/staging environments) NewRelic "only" stores the logs for 30 days and displays them in a nice web UI with searching, alerting, sharing, and a bunch of other stuff. It's not like they cease to exist without it.
- sateesh 5y agoSSH to machine and grepping through is much harder when the number of machine is > ~5 (say). SSH to host doesn't scale as you keep adding the hosts.
- piaste 5y agoWe use Docker Swarm so we can SSH into a manager and run `docker service logs` regardless of which hosts are actually running the services. I assume other orchestration systems have equivalent features.
- VectorLock 5y agoWhen someone says "we ssh and grep" you know pretty much how small their operation is.