Streak Releases Mâché: Easy Log Analysis for App Engine

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Hey, I hacked a similar solution in python using the mapreduce API: http://code.google.com/p/log2bq

And also delivered a codelab about it at Google I/O last week: http://log2bq-codelab-io12.appspot.com/slides

Happy to see something similar as a real product :)

cool!

Mache is a tool we are using internally at Streak, and thought the appengine community could benefit from it too. Good to see there are options for java/python now...

Yes, you should advertise it on google-appengine@ groups and appengine subreddit if not already :)

This looks pretty cool - As a heads up, I was going to tweet it, but the social buttons aren't working.

Why build out a tool like this instead of using pre-made solutions like Splunk, etc.?

Love the work you guys are doing on Streak!

Hey Sean,

We looked into a lot of logging solutions and couldn't find a solution that fit our requirements. In particular, 1) at the moment we don't run any servers (even virtualized) ourselves, and we're loving not having to worry about that level of infrastructure. Splunk and most other logging solutions would have required running a VM just for the daemon (either proprietary or syslog). 2) the total cost of developing Mache was significantly less than even a single 500 MB Splunk license. 3) most other solutions that we looked at really want to treat logs as lines of text data. App Engine logs provide more metadata, and we didn't want to lose and have to reconstruct that data.

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