Collecting the logs
Reading the logs can be done on your PC during development, but it is unrealistic to carry it out during production or even in a shared test environment. Reading the records is not scalable, but if you try to estimate the number of logs your application will write at the info level, you will get an idea.
Having 10 clients send 5 requests per second is equal to 100 lines per second per day. Therefore, the log file would be more than 8 million rows, just for a single application installation. If we scale the application to two nodes, we need to search in two different files, but if we followed this path, the log files would be useless because they would be inaccessible.
As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, a good log setup allows us to consolidate to a log management software destination, so let’s see how to design it.
How to consolidate the logs
Before considering where to consolidate the logs, we must focus on the actor who submits the...
