We are using Elmah on production to log problems in our web applications. Elmah logs are stored in a MySql table which structure is a slightly modified version of the elman_error table from the original Elmah script (I changed the engine to InnoDB and added partitioning over TimeUTC column):

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `elmah_error` (
  `ErrorId` CHAR(36) NOT NULL ,
  `Application` VARCHAR(60) NOT NULL ,
  `Host` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL ,
  `Type` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL ,
  `Source` VARCHAR(60) NOT NULL ,
  `Message` VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL ,
  `User` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL ,
  `StatusCode` INT(10) NOT NULL ,
  `TimeUtc` DATETIME NOT NULL ,
  `Sequence` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
  `AllXml` TEXT NOT NULL ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`Sequence`, `TimeUtc`) ,
  INDEX `IX_ErrorId` (`ErrorId`(8) ASC) , -- UNIQUE can't be created if it does not include all partition columns
  INDEX `IX_ELMAH_Error_App_Time_Seql` (`Application`(10) ASC, `TimeUtc` DESC, `Sequence` DESC) ,
  INDEX `IX_ErrorId_App` (`ErrorId`(8) ASC, `Application`(10) ASC) )
ENGINE InnoDB DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin2
partition by range columns(`TimeUtc`)
(
  partition before20130719 values less than ('2013-07-19 00:00')
);

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