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I am planning to build on Central logging server to collect the log files from Linux machine, Tomcat, Apache, ... Could you please help to suggest me some useful tools?
I suppose to install on Linux System. And other systems, applications forward logs to Central log server.
Hi AlucardZero,
I know rsyslog but I want to have a web interface for visual viewing. Could you have other suggestion?
A "central logging server" is either rsyslog or syslog-ng. What you're asking for is a log VIEWING application. Check out Splunk...it, like SuSE Enterprise, is a commercial, PAY FOR product.
Graylog2 is a great free splunk alternative. Graylog2 is a 'log management' server, whereas rsyslog and syslog-ng are logging daemons. You also need a log shipper and an database.
I use a combination of Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana and Graylog2.
Logstash grabs the logs, converts them to JSON, stores them in Elasticsearch. And Graylog2 allows searching, trending and so on of the Elasticsearch cluster data.
In the environment I am in, I already had rsyslog available, so there was no reason to use Logstash to send to Logstash. Rsyslog is already able to write directly to ElasticSearch.
I do LOVE logstash though. The ability to take logs in and transform them into something useful is awesome. Here is one of the configs I use for Logstash:
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