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> Logs are structured and passed to a SaaS which will have a custom search syntax that takes tens of seconds to search them poorly, and they'll get lost in the
by EamonnMR 3y ago
> Logs are structured and passed to a SaaS which will have a custom search syntax that takes tens of seconds to search them poorly, and they'll get lost in the noise of all those components. You'll spend a non-trivial amount of time devising systems for tracing requests through all these components.
I feel this one. At a previous gig we had an entire project to try and pick a logging solution, and none on offer let you do the one fundamental operation that makes using logs bearable; full text search.
- robinduckett 3y agoCloudwatch tho
- rbanffy 3y agoI have to say filebeat bothers me. We already had rsyslogd and it’s a very elegant idea.
- arp242 3y agoI have never found a logging tool that I like more than grep (or ripgrep, I suppose, combined with maybe some awk). In principle there's a lot that could be improved on grep/awk, but somehow all the tools that I've had to use thus far come with implementations that are so bad and constrained that grep still wins. It's almost like the people writing these things have never used it themselves.