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Questions tagged [logging]

Recording activity on the system (or of a particular program) for later reporting and analysis. Logins, logouts, web server page requests, etc might all be logged.

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Turning a log file into a sort of circular buffer

Folks, is there a *nix solution which would make the log file act as a circular buffer? For example, I'd like log files to store maximum 1Gb of data and discard the older entries once the limit is reached. Is it possible at all? I believe in order…
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Is there a web-based log-tailing application?

I have been using BareTail for low-footprint log reading, and it works wonderfully. In particular, I like that it can consume very large large files, detect changes to those files, all without consuming much memory at all. I'd like to know if there…
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The most powerful open source web analytics tools?

Need some advices on choosing open source web analytics tools, including both of page tagging and log file analysis type. I know some of them: piwik, open web analytics, awstats and more... what are the best ones among them(page tagging type and log…
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Nagios vs Splunk

I am looking to implement log tracking at my current company. After some research it seems Nagios and Splunk are the two best options. I was wondering if there is a consensus with which is better. I understand that Splunk can be quite pricey if the…
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How do server administrators like their server logs?

I'm a software developer and I'm building an HTTP server. Since I have no experience in hosting and managing servers, I have problems with balancing logging performance with usability. For example, is it acceptable to use one log file per domain? Or…
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Log Aggregation solutions

We are currently evaluating log aggregation solutions at my company. I understand that Splunk is one of the best solutions, but what are some of the "negatives" with using Splunk? Is there anything else out there that maybe does a better job of log…
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For how long do I need to store the logs?

I will soon be running an internet-based public service which will physically be hosted in the UK on a virtual server. The virtual server is provided by the ISP. I was wondering if there is/are any legal requirement(s) to keep access logs, and if…
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How to get Apache download counts by week

(Please move to serverfault if appropriate - it seems more of an application issue to me) I've got a PHP server, hosting MP3 files for a podcast. I'd love to get a week by week breakdown of how many times the files were downloaded (is the long tail…
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A linux tftpd server that can log the incoming requests to stdout/stderr

I find it crazy that this doesn't work out of the box, but neither atftpd nor tftpd-hpa seem to have any way to log to the console. I've run them in the foreground with verbosity right up but clearly that's not the right magic incantation. I'm…
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Logfile full of '...mydomain.net/wp-login.php' not found or unable to stat

Whenever I check my logfile most of it entries look like that with changing client ip [Fri Nov 18 04:03:25 2016] [-:error] [pid 32060] [client 65.95.116.2XX] [host www.mydomain.net] script '/is/htdocs/www/mydomain.net/wp-login.php' not found or…
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Ubuntu 14.04. auth.log deleted

the log file auth.log has dissappeared on my ubuntu 14.04 server. Fail2ban log says that suddenly the file was gone: 2016-04-16 21:59:56,735 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [ssh] Ban 192.169.189.36 2016-04-17 01:27:51,182 fail2ban.filter : ERROR Unable…
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How to make Ossec aware of logrotate

I installed Ossec in a monitor/agent configuration on a few servers of mine. Everything works greats. The only thing that annoy me is that I keep receiving alerts after logrotate rotates the log I watch. Now my mailbox is full of Rule: 550 fired…
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Integrating log4cxx and kafka

What is the best way to push logs from a C++ server using log4cxx for logging to a kafka cluster? Is there any compatible log4cxx appender or any proxy that I could deploy in the middle?
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Log Archiving Solution

What is the best solution for log archiving ? I have two application server (tomcat6) and I need to keep application log files for 7 years. Shipping, zipping and writing them on Bluray or DVD is time consuming, some the process is already automated…
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Splunk as syslog analyzer

I have running centralized syslog server (rsyslog on CentOS6, which works perfect). Next step it was to add Splunk as a syslog analyzing tool. All was installed perfectly - Splunk works, can log in to the front end and add data source (TCP port 514)…
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