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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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How do you deal with the logs on your servers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it's no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever neccessarly.

I've looked at grafana and tried the agent briefly, but it wasn't as easy as I thought (and it might be a too big tool for my needs). So I thought to ask the linuxlemmy community to get some inspiration.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've done everything from local syslog to various open source and proprietary log pipelines and also worked on a team dedicated to building a custom log-processing pipeline from scratch in a large environment.

One lesson I've learned is that no matter how nice that web UI is I still want some kind of CLI access and the equivalent of being able to cat, tail and grep logs. In large environments it won't be actually tail-ing a logfile but I want something that can produce a live logstream for piping into Unix text (and JSON) processing tools.