The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

Choosing a centralized logging solution

The first thing we need to do is to find a place where we'll store logs. Given that we want to have the ability to filter log entries, storing them in files should be discarded from the start. What we need is a database, of sorts. It is more important that it is fast than transactional, so we are most likely looking into a solution that is an in-memory database. But, before we take a look at the choices, we should discuss the location of our database. Should we run it inside our cluster, or should we use a service? Instead of making that decision right away, we'll explore both options, before we make a choice.

There are two major groups of logging-as-a-service types. If we are running our cluster with ...