Distributed Logging: Syslog-ng & Splunk. By Ilya Grigorik on October 22, 2008 If you haven't already, I encourage you to take Splunk for a test drive.
While there is no shortage of distributed log aggregators on the market, few if any come with as much flexibility and firepower when it comes to indexing and search when you need to find a needle in a haystack of log data. After deploying it for a collection of Ruby applications using a simple UDP logger, I've decided to push the ball even further and see if I could route the entire stack into Splunk: HAproxy, Nginx, Ruby, and others, all over the network. Using del.icio.us for loosely coupled teams. Some great geek art. Just found this collection of geek art.
It has some pretty hilarious references, and I’ve posted my favourites below. And finally my favourite: Jyte.