It is getting towards the end of the year have I’ve been having a good think about Chililog.

Taking stock, I have:

1. learnt something new – Sproutcore 2, HornetQ, Netty MongoDB
2. been able to finally log javascript events over the net.
3. created Chililog blog and web site.
4. been invited to join the Netty team .  Thanks Trustin.

So what next for Chililog?

I was going to start on monitoring logs.  But, in looking at the technology landscape, I think it is better to put time into hardening and scaling Chililog.

What that in mind, I’ve been reading up on Scala and Cassandra.  This has lead me to look at existing open source logging projects: flume, chukwa, scribe, logsandra, logstash, etc.  Wow – these projects have come on leaps and bounds since I last looked at them 12 months ago.

So over the next few months, I’m going to have a look at these projects and see if I can incorporate them in to Chililog.  These projects are already production tested and scalable so that is one less thing I have to do on Chililog.  If I can use one or more of these projects to collect log data, then I can focus on the part of Chililog that interests me most – analysing and presenting the log data.

Happy Holidays …