I stumbled upon this Blog post at Etsy last evening: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/tag/graphite/
They talk about using the FOSS Graphite system for logging/visualizing system monitoring data in their continuous deployment environment where they push up to 24 builds a day to their production servers: http://graphite.wikidot.com/start The input format is awesome -- its as simple as <TAG> <DATA> <UNIX TIMESTAMP>. An example data submission looks like: "foo.bar.baz 42 74857843". Stan
