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ddevault on April 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you log application events?

I run services that log to plaintext files and I use logrotate to periodically gzip and rotate them out for archival.

Just use grep to query recent logs, zgrep if you have to dig a little.

nazri1 on April 27, 2015 [–]

zgrep works for both plain text and gzipped streams so you can do something like this (assuming you have both deflated and non-deflated files that matches the glob pattern):

    zgrep somepattern /var/log/messages*

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