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System Design Question

Design a Log Collection and Analysis System

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Functional Requirements:

  • Collect and store logs from various services.
  • Support querying logs by service, time range, and log level.
  • Enable full-text search on log messages.
  • Provide basic log aggregation metrics (e.g., error counts per service).
  • Archive logs for long-term storage and retrieval.

Non-Functional Requirements:

  • Scalability: System should handle increasing log volume as services grow.
  • High availability: Logging and querying should be reliable and resilient to failures.
  • Near real-time log ingestion and query (acceptable delay of a few seconds).
  • Data retention: Support configurable log retention and archival policies.
  • Consistency: Eventual consistency is acceptable for log queries and metrics.

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