title: Moving from file logging to database logging
body: <p>We are currently considering moving from logging to files, to logging to a NoSQL database.  Another team in our company is starting to use HBase but that looked quite complex for what we would like to do.  I have been looking at MongoDB but i would like some suggestions.</p>
  
  <p>Currently we have hundreds of servers in farms for different applications.  Whenever we hear of a problem from one of the applications there is a long process the retrieve the logs from app ops and then a long process to sift through them all to find the problem.  We are looking at just moving all of our logging into a central place and building a web UI around it so we can access and query the logs more easily.</p>
  
  <p>Which NoSQL database would be a good fit for storing and querying applications log?</p>