The first motivation for this setup was to make our logs easily parseable to extract stats from them; Couch seemed like a natural fit to store them. Plus, Couch

The first motivation for this setup was to make our logs easily parseable to extract stats from them; Couch seemed like a natural fit to store them. Plus, Couch's sane API essentially means we're able to grab the logs from any tool/language with minimal effort. I'm well aware that this isn't necessarily the best/proper way to handle logs, but we're all fairly pleased here with how it's worked out.