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If you love your logs, set them free

  • Philip O'ToolePhilip O'Toole
  • March 21, 2013
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logglyI recently wrote my first post for the Loggly blog. It illustrates why host machines are often the worst place to store the logs those machines are generating.

You can check it out here.

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# logs# operations

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