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nosir33 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it

I think this is great. The page is basically a markdown viewer and the link has markdown encoded in it. If you pass the URL through a URL shortener, then the URL shortener is effectively hosting the content of your page. It would be cool if this was static HTML and the markdown was rendered in JS.

nosir33 | 11 years ago | on: Grepping logs is terrible

One of the initial challenges I see from an OPS perspective is that the most recent logs are often the most interesting. The latency of the logs being ingested into a DB would prevent me from using the DB. Generally, I find my self grepping logs on the prod servers.

nosir33 | 11 years ago | on: Grepping logs is terrible

I don't know of any systems that do this.

As an software developer, I generally use log levels to indicate severity in my logs. So grepping for ERROR should catch anything I had the foresight to log at the ERROR level.

Simple heuristics like the number of WARN level logs a minute may be useful.

Beyond that it sounds interesting. It may be hard to do in a general way, so focusing on Apache logs or something common may be a simpler task.

nosir33 | 11 years ago | on: Grepping logs is terrible

> That's a lot more information than you could get from a binary log without any tools.

The environment I work in I am frequently looking at logs that other teams generate. If I needed to ramp up on their custom logging toolset just to perform simple queries I am going to give up and waste the the teams time by getting them to perform the queries for me.

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