You don't monitor web logs, you ship the logs to cold storage every [crontab spec units for time :)] and monitor your hosts and network for unusual activity.

If anything happens, THEN you look at the logs. The signal/noise ratio of the average web host logs makes combing through them just not worth it.

There are tons of products out there - have a look at OSSEC (https://www.ossec.net/), it's open source and free.

The headline graphic really caught my attention, because my fingers have ls -latr ingrained into them.

I thought it oddly fitting.

http://www.isup.me/facebook.com says it's down as of now. But it works for me, from Denmark.

edit - Actually checked the link provided by OP and felt humbled.

*edit - ran the test again. error rate down to 28%

Transform your work world with holograms!

Tempo Vision is hardware that enhances the way teams experience their environment in Tempo and JIRA.

http://www.tempoplugin.com/tempo-vision/

That page loads but doesn't render for me (Chrome 4.x/FF 36) ... I feel so excluded.

  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'in_china' of undefined

Same here

TypeError: $S.global_conf is undefined blog_editor-8c9dc8f38e8dff53f0a4430e9075aaca.js:35040

"Invalid App Id: Must be a number or numeric string representing the application id." all.js:61

"FB.getLoginStatus() called before calling FB.init().

http://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is looking better by the day

edit: wow I'm counting over 50k lines of JS in this page.. I think it's this: https://github.com/craigcollie/Bobcat

This makes me feel sad

That looks like somebody messed up while converting image data to vector data in their GIS.

Sometimes you see stuff similar to this when you have a bunch of coordinates and a few of them are corrupted - then the lines would shoot off somewhere, and sometimes you might not even notice it. BUT this doesn't look like that - hell it could be pastefuck.

I thought I was going to see Phil Fish fight himself, somehow.

That already exists, it's called Indie Game: The Movie.

Why isn't there a big fat blinking TRY ME button somewhere on that site? And if it's there, why isn't it in my face? And don't ask me to create an account before showing me the goods, because I won't.

Aw man, I've turned into the typical negative HN commenter. My mother would be so ashamed.

Could somebody explain to this mere mortal what drives these DDoS attacks? Is it blackmail? Is it the lulz?