Slashdot | How Should an Application's Logs Work?

Slashdot | How Should an Application's Logs Work?: "In my experience, logging each request to a database isn't fast enough and eventually it becomes CPU overloaded.

tab separated plain text logging is just fine and dandy. Syslog is great because it has a standard format so any tools you make will just keep on trucking.

If you want a db of it do it in batch mode when you need it i.e.

zcat messages.0.gz | syslogtodb | grep httpd | mysql httpd

Why waste those CPU cycles indexing millions of lines of logging you'll never look at ?"