Ploddle

A log collector and search engine

• View all the logs, for all the hosts
• If something goes wrong at 8:29:23, see everything that happened at that time. If a SAN has a disk failure, causing a database server to reboot, which gives connection errors for the front end server, and slowness for the client, you can see the whole picture at once.
• Extra detail for ploddle-enabled languages:
  • Source code file and line number
    • Link it in with your source code management
  • Process name / ID
  • Thread name / ID
  • Exception stack traces
  • Any application-specific data you want to add :-)
    • Username, actions taken, SCM revision IDs, ...
• Use your current logging infrastructure
  • Syslog for system-level events
  • Python Logging for application-level
  • Extra data is sent as JSON, so adding support for your language / logging library of choice should be simple.

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