Fat rails app to log data into aws kinesis?

Question

I have this fat Rails app I run on a number of ec2 instances over a nfs share. Because of this the log files get clogged and I'd like to be able to view exceptions or errors and several other things as they happen.

Is there a way to get this done?

Answer 1

The best tool for this kind of work is to use a log management service, which provides a real-time interface for monitoring and doesn't require setting up all the infrastructure for AWS Kinesis.

There are some based on syslogd and have a really good integration with Rails.

Be sure to check out:

• Papertrail (papertrailapp.com)
• Loggly (www.loggly.com)
• Splunk (www.splunk.com - on-premise)