What's a good way to collect logs from Amazon EC2 instances?

Question

My app is hosted on an Amazon EC2 cluster. Each instance writes events to log files. I need to collect (and data mine) over these logs at the end of each day. What\'s a reco

Answer 1

I've not tried it for this purpose, but Amazon appear to recommend using SimpleDB:

http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/usecases_logging/

Here's a package that you might find useful - it says you can use it to capture stdout/stderr into SimpleDB:

http://code.google.com/p/simpledb-appender/