• An optional unified log file format (a la apache) would be nice, as it would allow you to keep everything in one place. But I'd place this lower on the totem pole than getting more log data out of the system.
• More importantly, making all log data available via the web interface to list admins would be great. The more we can do that doesn't require command-line access to the server, the better. This includes integration with log processing tools like Splunk (which we should use on python.org, btw).

I speak only for myself, but with experience in tracking down problems on posts to various lists on python.org, as well as writing or maintaining various log processing tools

Decided to move this stuff down into a "real" comment. Sorry about the edit, folks!