Finish up the writeup on logging aggregators

Matt Brown · Matt Brown · commit 9a7573c0dc30 · 2014-03-09T21:41:38.000-04:00
diff --git a/source/content/pages/web-framework-logging.rst b/source/content/pages/web-framework-logging.rst
@@ -25,29 +25,34 @@ log data to Sentry for aggregation. Sentry provides a clean web application
 interface for viewing the exceptions. Sentry can also be configured with a
 mail plugin to send emails when exceptions occur.
 
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 Logging Aggregators
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 When you are running your application on several servers, it is helpful
-to have a monitoring tool called a "logging aggregator." You can configure your
-application to forward your application and system logs to one place that 
-allows you to view, search, and monitor logging events across all of your machinces. 
+to have a monitoring tool called a "logging aggregator". You can configure your
+application to forward your system and application logs to one location that 
+provides tools such as to viewing searching, and monitoring logging events across your cluster. 
 
-Another advantage of log aggregators tools is they allow you to set up custom alerts
-and alarms so you can get notified when error rates breach a certain threshold 
+Another advantage of log aggregatortion tools is they allow you to set up custom alerts
+and alarms so you can get notified when error rates breach a certain threshold.
 
 Log Aggregator Third Party Services
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 `loggly <https://www.loggly.com/>`_ Loggly is a third party cloud based application that
 aggregates logs. They have instructions for every major language, including python. It includes email
 alerting on custom searches. 
+`papertrail <https://papertrailapp.com/>`_ Paper trail is similar to both loggly and splunk and provides
+integration with S3 for 
 `splunk <http://www.splunk.com/>`_ Splunk offers third party cloud and self hosted solutions 
-for event aggregation. It excells at searching and data mining any text based data.  
+for event aggregation. It excells at searching and data mining any text based data. 
 
 Open Source Projects
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-`Logstash <http://logstash.net/>`_ 
 `Graylog2 <http://graylog2.org/>`_ Provides a central server for log aggregation as well as a GUI for
 browsing and searching through log events. There are libraries for most major languages, including python.
 Saves data in elasicache.
+`Logstash <http://logstash.net/>`_ Similar to Graylog2, logstash offers features to programatically
+configure log data workflows.
+`Scribe <https://github.com/facebook/scribe>`_ A project written by facebook to aggregate logs. It's designed
+to run on multiple servers and scale with the rest of your cluster. Uses the Thrift messagaing format so it can
+be used with any language. 
