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Amon – Server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps
Amon is a self-hosted, lightweight web application and server monitoring toolkit. It provides you with straightforward visualisation of essential server data. It helps you manage the errors that occur in your web applications and makes logging complex data structures and searching in your log data easy.
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Logs Are Streams, Not Files
Syslog is an entrenched standard for distributed logging, but there are other, more modern options as well. Splunk, fast becoming a indispensable tool for anyone running a large software service, can accept syslog; but it also has its own custom protocol which offers additional features like authentication and encryption. Scribe is another example of a modern logging protocol.
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Greplin Exception Catcher – GitHub
Greplin Exception Catcher (GEC) – Exception collection and aggregation built on Google App Engine.
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Graylog2: Java, Ruby, MongoDB-powered log management, monitoring, and alerting
Graylog2 a slick log management, monitoring, and alerting tool powered by Java, Ruby, and MongoDB, performs these well. Graylog consists of a Java server that collects your logging data and stuffs it into MongoDB and a Ruby on Rails web interface for searching, filtering, and graphing that data.
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May 1, 2012
