What it does Stores log file data from multiple remote hosts to MongoDB Creates processes that ssh to a remote host and run "tail --follow=name" on the log file Parses the log file using Regular Expressions Stores the data in MongoDB Queries MongoDB for interesting statistics e.g.: Requests/mintute Cache hit rate Count of HTTP 500 statuses Average upstream response time MySQL questions/second Creates real-time plots in a web browser Dependencies MongoDB PyMongo Orbited Twisted stompservice flot a few more in pip-requirements.txt To use it Copy settings_template.py to settings.py and edit it Start mongod Start orbited In first terminal, run "sourceexecutive.py" In second terminal, run "analyzerexecutive.py" Problems / Limitations Leaves "mysqladmin extended" processes running on remote host The bulk of this is set up for my custom Nginx log file (but it is easy to write your own custom sources, parsers, and analyzers.