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Remote logging with Rsyslog - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
Remote logging with Rsyslog
- [Instructor] Whether you have one system or thousands of systems, logging is essential. Logs let us see what's going on with the system. And they offer valuable insight when something goes wrong. Logs provide critical information, and in order to view that information, we usually need to connect the systems and read the logs locally. It's also possible to configure Linux systems to send their logs to another system via the network. And that's what I'd like to show you in this episode. Many distros use the Rsyslog package to write and manage their log files. There are other ways of handling remote logging, including products that are dedicated to log collection, management and analysis like Splunk, and extremely powerful collection and search interfaces like Logstash and Elasticsearch. But because Rsyslog is baked into many distros, we'll take a look at it here. Rsyslog can act as both a logging client and a logging server.…
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