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Wouldn't that require you to actively watch the logs going by?

lol, in that case, yes. we had 500 servers reporting centralized syslog and many people would just tail -f the central log to make sure not too much crazy shit was happening.

(in a perfect software system (spherical cow) obviously all errors would be tagged and categorized with proper monitoring and alerting thresholds. but, in the real world you have a 800,000 lines of php spread across 1,000 files written by 300 mostly junior people (who only stay for 6 to 14 months at a time) over the past 10 years. you make the best of what you've got.)



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