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submitted 1 year ago by krash@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] uollano@hexagonsun.one 3 points 1 year ago

You could try deploying an ELK stack and manage log collection using Elastic Agents and integrations, works pretty well for us and, as long as your log is supported by an integration, it’s dead simple to manage

[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

And if you need to take a look at it, you'll really appreciate the convenience and ability to query.

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