logging - Best way to aggregate multiple log files from several servers

Question

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/83741/best-way-to-aggregate-multiple-log-files-from-several-servers

Answer 1

Options:

1. Use a SocketAppender to send all logs to 1 server directly. (This could serverly hamper performance and add a single point of failure.)
2. Use scripts to aggregate the data. I use scp, ssh, and authentication keys to allow my scripts to get data from all servers without any login prompts.