Hi! During the past couple of nights, I was busy coming up with something that would showcase the power of syslog-ng combined with the mongodb destination, and that is how mojology was born: http://mojology.madhouse-project.org/ source available @ https://github.com/algernon/mojology To sum it up: it's a web based log browser, a reasonably simple one: one can't search, or do advanced filtering (yet!), only a few basic stuff. The interesting part comes from the fact that the logs it displays are stored in mongodb, a document store, and as such, the structure of them is very, very flexible. Although, the application does make a few assumptions (see the about page or the readme in the sources), it still retains a lot of flexibility. Without going into the gory details (that's what the source is for ;), let me show you a few interesting pages! Examples -------- * http://mojology.madhouse-project.org/log/4d28cd01f310ef4f00000024 This one was originally made with the following command: logger -i -t hi 'Hello World! This concludes our demo session." Then I went into the MongoDB shell and added a few other keys below the "dyn" sub-document, alongside the default "classifier" (courtesy of patterndb). As you can see, no matter how deep one nests, it still displays properly. It's also easy to query, even at such depths. * http://mojology.madhouse-project.org/log/4d28cba4f310ef4f0000001e Logging in from one computer to my desktop, using password authentication. This entry was made fully automatically. Other notes ----------- The database behind the demo application is fairly small, only 39 messages stored, but hey, it's a demo! The program itself is a little over a hundred lines of python + templates; built upon Flask & PyMongo. For the best experience, a recent browser is strongly advised: Chromium 6+, Firefox 4+ for best results; Firefox 3 works very well too, but some of the tiny cosmetic features do not; the site displays in IE7+ too, and can be used, but the experience is rather disappointing. I hope this little weekend hack helps demonstrate how flexible mongodb can be for logging, and how well syslog-ng can make use of that flexibility. -- |8]