Centralized logging for multiple servers

[Kingsley Foreman]

mergelog can do that.

100 solutions to a problem, non of them great :(

Kingsley


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From: "Glen Lumanau" <glen at lumanau.web.id>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:53 PM
To: <nginx at sysoev.ru>
Subject: Re: Centralized logging for multiple servers

> Then how can we join those logs that's sent to central host?
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Igor Sysoev
> Sender: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru
> To: nginx at sysoev.ru
> ReplyTo: nginx at sysoev.ru
> Subject: Re: Centralized logging for multiple servers
> Sent: Apr 15, 2009 8:12 PM
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:56:29PM +0930, Kingsley Foreman wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just wondering what you guys are using for centralized logging of access
>> logs for multiple servers. I'm thinking about using the syslog patch but 
>> I
>> was wondering if anyone was using anything they think is better? And has
>> piping of log files been implemented in the newer versions?
>
> I personally do not like syslog and log piping.
>
> I prefer to writing to local file system and to scp logs at midnight to
> central host.
>
> Some time ago I needed to deliver logs for hourly statistics. I have made
> script that rotates log every hour, then gzips it (it takes several
> seconds as a whole ~1G hourly log file is in VFS cache), and sends
> the log to host. A daily log is done as
>
> zcat hourly-logs.gz | 7z > daily-log.7z
>
> and then it is copied to central host.
>
>
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Glen Lumanau
> -
> Sent from my BlackBerry®
>
>