To follow up it ... it seems dumping to Solr is common ... http://highscalability.com/how-rackspace-now-uses-mapreduce-and-hadoop-query-terabytes-data
- Jon On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Jon Baer wrote: > Good question, +1 on finding answer, my take ... > > Depending on how large of log files you are talking about it might be better > off to do this w/ HDFS / Hadoop (and a script language like Pig) (or Amazon > EMR) > > http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=873 > > Theoretically you could split the logs to fields, use a dataimporter and > search / sort w/ something like LineEntityProcessor. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler#LineEntityProcessor > > I've tried to use Solr as a log analytics tool (before dataimporthandler) and > it was not worth the disk space or practical but I'd love to hear otherwise. > In general you could flush daily logs to an index but working w/ the data in > another context if you had to seems better fit for HDFS use (I think). > > - Jon > > On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Stefan Maric wrote: > >> >> I thought i remembered seeing some information about this, but have been >> unable to find it >> >> Does anyone know if there is a configuration / module that would allow us to >> setup Solr to take in the (large) log files generated by our web/app >> servers, so that we can query for things like peak time requests or most >> frequently requested web page etc >> >> Thanks >> Stefan Maric >> >