improving signal to noise ratio from centralized network syslogs

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Feb 5 21:57:39 UTC 2018


On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:27:13 +0000, James Bensley said:
> On 5 February 2018 at 18:57,  <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:49:42 -0800, "Scott Weeks" said:
> >> I have no knowledge of syslog-ng.  Does it do the
> >> real time scrolling like I mention?
> >
> > Use 'tail -f' or similar.
>
> The only problem is that with BASH based solutions is that they are
> slow. They don't scale well.

The basic point was that you need to supply your own solution for monitoring
syslog-ng logs, be it tail or logwatch or whatever - it doesn't come with its own.
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