Distributed apps quickly get to the place where trying to debug using tail -f becomes untenable. However, ignoring your logs isn't an option. The ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) is a go-to tool for managing your logs and making them help you rather than just taking up hard drive space. Unfortunately, it does not yet have out-of-the-box log processing or dashboards for Cassandra. Check out a way to extract meaningful information from your Cassandra logs here. View on Github