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2828interface for viewing the exceptions. Sentry can also be configured with a
2929mail plugin to send emails when exceptions occur.
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3132## Logging Aggregators
3233When you are running your application on several servers, it is helpful
3334to have a monitoring tool called a "logging aggregator". You can configure your
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3738Another advantage of log aggregatortion tools is they allow you to set up custom alerts
3839and alarms so you can get notified when error rates breach a certain threshold.
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4042### Log Aggregator Third Party Services
4143* [ loggly] ( https://www.loggly.com/ ) Loggly is a third party cloud based application that
4244aggregates logs. They have instructions for every major language, including python. It includes email
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4648* [ splunk] ( http://www.splunk.com/ ) Splunk offers third party cloud and self hosted solutions
4749for event aggregation. It excells at searching and data mining any text based data.
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4952### Open Source Log Aggregators
5053* [ Graylog2] ( http://graylog2.org/ ) Provides a central server for log aggregation as well as a GUI for
5154browsing and searching through log events. There are libraries for most major languages, including python.
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5558* [ Scribe] ( https://github.com/facebook/scribe ) A project written by facebook to aggregate logs. It's designed
5659to run on multiple servers and scale with the rest of your cluster. Uses the Thrift messagaing format so it can
5760be used with any language.
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63+ ## Logging resources
64+ * [ Logging as Storytelling] ( http://www.hybridcluster.com/blog/logging-storytelling/ )
65+ is a multi-part series working the analogy that logs should read like
66+ a story so you can better understand what's taking place in your web
67+ application.
68+ [ Part 2 describes actions] ( http://www.hybridcluster.com/blog/logging-storytelling-lets-add-action/ )
69+ and
70+ [ part 3 talks about types] ( http://www.hybridcluster.com/blog/logging-storytelling-3-types/ ) .
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