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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] 1 points 1 year ago

Make sure that you have logrotate installed and working, to prevent them from piling up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Systemd does all that for you. Just set a limit in journal.conf

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So does syslog; and really well. Logging is just another thing Lennart tried to take over from a working system, that he and Kay half-delivered, and wandered off. See also: nfsroot, fast boots, easy init config, nfs mounts in general, and cron.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

OK boomer

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Honestly? I just ignore them. Something seems to be happening to them, as they're not growing infinitely, but no idea why.

It was a bit complicated to set this up, but it took me almost no time at all.