How do you deal with the logs on your servers?

3 years ago by krash to c/linux

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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incognito_tuna 3 points 3 years ago

I've been using Loki and promtail for containers I actually care about aggregating logs for. It's something relatively new for me but so far the experience has been positive.

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Lasso1971 2 points 3 years ago

Any specific guide you followed?

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