[Wolves] Log Analysis tools

[Simon Burke]

Morning all,


Does anyone have any preference when it comes to tools for Log analysis.
Currently I have been scripting data into a MySQL DB and using SQL to get 
some meaningful data out, but considering we're talking nearly 1Gb of logs 
a day to process this is not the best solution.

I've now been playing with sawmill that does the job fine, dump the logs 
into a directory daily and then let it run overnight to produce nice 
pretty reports.

But is there a better way?

The reason this has come around is because until I started here there was 
no real management of server here rather than just break/fix. Not even any 
real capacity planning etc. I wont give an example as its upsetting.

Thanks,
Simon.