loggint through syslog

[Michael Shadle]

i could see the draw for people to aggregate all their access logs
through syslog remoting to a central logging server, that'd be kind of
a neat way of handling it, but i'd be worried that the syslog
infrastructure isn't designed for hundreds of messages per second or
more (maybe it is, but that would worry me :))

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kingsley Foreman
<kingsley at internode.com.au> wrote:
> i would like an official syslog patch also, or at least an option say
>
> error_log syslog:info crit;
>
> or something like that.
>
> Kingsley
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Michael Shadle" <mike503 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:26 AM
> To: <nginx at nginx.org>
> Subject: Re: loggint through syslog
>
>> I'd still be +1 for a syslog module/patch to be official
>>
>> If there's a way to fire off the message and forget about it so it
>> doesn't block, then I don't see a problem (I wouldn't recommend it for
>> access logging necessarily, but for error logging and such it would be
>> nice?)
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Peter Leonov <gojpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 20.12.2009, at 19:50, Vinay Y s <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gabri Mate wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey There!
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any chance to be able to log access through syslog? It would
>>>>> be
>>>>
>>>> I doubt if there is built-in support for logging to syslog directly. But
>>>> you can achieve something almost as good by simply tailing the logs to
>>>> the syslog logger command.
>>>>
>>>> try this:
>>>> tail -f access.log | logger -p local5.err -t nginx
>>>>
>>>> you can ensure this is always running by using something like
>>>> daemontools.
>>>>
>>>> Surely this will have worser performance than if it were implemented
>>>> natively within nginx.
>>>
>>> The recent descussion in the Russian list tells the opposite. Performance
>>> may become even better due to packet nature of the network: less packets
>>> on
>>> heavu loadef system.
>>>
>>> Do not be afraid to use such a configuration :)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Peter.
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