Investigating an incident: how to log effectively (PHP)

 https://dev.to/he110/investigating-an-incident-how-to-log-effectively-php-105o

Introduction to local logging in PHP. Gets it fairly right.

Lessons I learned from achieving a 99.99% platform uptime

 https://dev.to/germangonzo/lessons-i-learned-from-achieving-a-99-99-platform-uptime-1c9o

We all know what we have to do. We just have to actually do it. 

Linux Logging Tutorial: What Are Linux Logs, How to View, Search and Centralize Them

https://sematext.com/blog/linux-logs/
from start to fairly advanced

Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing system

https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/scribe/
that's a LOT of logs

How We Built A Logging Stack at Grab

https://engineering.grab.com/how-built-logging-stack
Another take on elastisearch

Kibana in the Headlights — Getting Familiar with the Elastic Stack’s Visualization Layer

https://medium.com/@llmaddox/kibana-in-the-headlights-getting-familiar-with-elks-visualization-layer-87a9af496678
Getting going with Kibana

Vendor-neutral APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing

https://opentracing.io/
Interesting project for open, distributed tracing.

A newbies guide to ELK – Part 3 – Logstash Structure & Conditionals

https://blog.mwpreston.net/2018/01/04/a-newbies-guide-to-elk-part-4-logstash-conditionals/
good 4 part series, wished for more though.

5 Logstash Alternatives

https://sematext.com/blog/logstash-alternatives/
Pros and cons of each.

Microservices Architecture - problems you will have to solve

https://medium.com/@justinamiller_1857/microservices-architecture-problems-you-will-have-to-solve-4153cfbde713
yes, you need centralized logging.

Log to Elasticsearch using curl

https://medium.com/@hendrikwallbaum/log-to-elasticsearch-using-curl-fb64d908c1a8
logging from the command line to elasticsearch

Logging Activity With The Web Beacon API

https://medium.com/@smashingmag/logging-activity-with-the-web-beacon-api-409e0596c669
lightweightjavascript logging library

Prometheus vs. Grafana vs. Graphite - A Feature Comparison

https://www.loomsystems.com/blog/single-post/2017/06/07/prometheus-vs-grafana-vs-graphite-a-feature-comparison
What's a time series, and what are good tools to generate them?

What is Fluentd?

https://www.fluentd.org/architecture
People are doing some pretty amazing stuff with fluentd. ETL, beyond logging.

PHP application logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Monolog

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/php-application-logging-with-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-and-monolog/
In the ongoing saga of logging, Monolog can log to AWS Cloudwatch and you can go from there. 

Debugging the dreaded "Class log does not exist" error in Laravel

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/debugging-the-dreaded-class-log-does-not-exist-error-in-laravel
How to debug Laravel if it dies before creating the log class. 

How to connect ELK with Monolog

https://pehapkari.cz/blog/2017/10/22/connecting-monolog-with-ELK/
Interesting case study of sending logging events from Monolog to an ELK stack, using RabbitMQ in the middle so as not to lose anything.