Ask HN: How do you log application events? 11 years ago
Back in 2012, we talked about our foundation for this at Indeed:
Blog: http://engineering.indeed.com/blog/2012/11/logrepo-enabling-...
Talk: http://engineering.indeed.com/talks/logrepo-enabling-data-dr...
tl; dr: a human-readable log format that uses a sortable UID and arbitrary types/fields, captured via a log4j syslog-ng adapter, and aggregated to a central server for manual access and processing