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What is an effective method to index logs?


Consider a service that archives logs from several clients, such that you should be able to search the logs.

Sometimes you will want to search using a partial match, but more often you'll likely be searching for an exact match on a long string. What kind of indexing method would be effective for these kind of searches?


  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
Elasticsearch is often used for this, which is Solr under the hood