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by kiyoto 4280 days ago
Logging to files creates a lot of headache. I would say the tail plugin for Fluentd (the open source log collector that I am a maintainer of: www.fluentd.org), I would say 1/3 to 1/2 of the questions are related to tailing log files.

I think, fundamentally, files are the wrong abstraction for log data (as pointed out by Adam Wiggins of Heroku fame: http://12factor.net/logs), but it is something that we are stuck with.