[mrweasel]

Grepping is just fine if you have a few hundred megabytes of data a day, so wanting to kill text based logging, because YOU reached multiple gigabytes a day is going to be met with resistance from the people who don't have those issues.

As the author himself points out: "I'm sorry, but deciding how much and what we log is not your job. Its ours, and this is the amount we have to deal with."

That goes both ways. If I only have one or two servers, having to run a centralized logging services doesn't scale either, the overhead is not worth the trouble.

If I want to look for an IP in logs from multiple service, text files are perfect. Doing the same across multiple servers, yes, then you want centralized logging. Binary logging ruins the first case, while text based works in both (sort of).

I don't really see the point of binary logs. Either you're small enough that text files won't be an issue, or you're large enough to have centralized logging.

It seems that there's a push towards "scaleable solution" for everything, but people keep forgetting that you need to scale down as well. Most of us will never have to run more than a handful of servers, and in these cases the Twitter/Google/Facebook-like infrastructure just isn't worth the hassle.