#loggly

Loggly is a Logging as a Service provider that’s become very popular lately. Loggly allows Applications and Systems to write log data into the cloud using various application libraries. But at a very basic level you can post log data to Loggly’s RESTful API. Loggly then provides a dashboard for searching and filtering log data. Alerts can also be created to notify you of different log events…

I’m no newbie to CDNs having working with cloud infrastructures for awhile now, but only recently started looking at CloudFlare as an added level of protection for my cloud hosted sites, offering robust security protection against online threats. I’ve managed to pick up a few trolls over the last few months with the help of Loggly, but I don’t have the resources or the time to actively monitor that. So I started using CloudFlare today, this promises some performance improvements with the site loading and uptime through their global distributed content network. CloudFlare offers three packages, free, pro and enterprise services, no brainer on which package I chose, wanting to do this on the cheap. How does this work, in the traditional setup your DNS server are pointed to your web servers, where your visitors, search bots and even attackers can get to you. Using CloudFlare, it sit between your request traffic and your web server and filters your attackers, letting only the good stuff through. CloudFlare is a honeypot, it invites attacks to learn and adapt, think of it a the Borg. The more attacks, the more it adapts.