Batch log files vs streaming: when to analyze
Do you wait for logrotate to hand you a clean daily file, or tail in real time? Depends on the question.
→ Batch (rotated files) — for crawl-budget reports, weekly bot-vs-user ratios, status-code trends. Clean boundaries, reproducible, easy to script with cron. The default for SEO analysis.
→ Streaming (tail -f / Vector) — only worth the complexity when you need to catch an event as it happens: a deploy that suddenly serves 503s to Googlebot, or a crawl spike hammering one path.
⭐ Pick of the week: the operational note many SREs share — analyze rotated files for insight, stream only for alerting. Mixing the two roles makes both fragile.
Takeaway: batch the rotated logs for analysis you repeat; stream only when latency to detection actually matters.
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