[syslog-ng] High availability for syslog-ng

[Abhijeet Rastogi]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Can you give a rough idea about the possible
increase in load when I use tcp instead of udp?


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Neubacher <daniel.neubacher at xing.com
> wrote:

>  The cheapest option is to change the complete environment to syslog-ng
> and tcp transport. Tcp works way better than udp and if you adjust the
> client fifo a bit you have quite a bit messages cached in the memory. I
> have this setup running with 800 clients and all clients are of course
> logging to two servers.****
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> *Betreff:* [syslog-ng] High availability for syslog-ng****
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> Hi,****
>
> Currently, I've just one syslog-ng server which receives messages from
> hundreds of rsyslog instances. I'm sending logs via UDP so if syslog-ng
> machine dies, logs will be missed.****
>
> How can I make the system more redundant? I want to achieve something like
> if the current syslog-ng machine goes down, some other machine should be
> able to take it's role.****
>
> Any kind of help is highly appreciated. Thanks****
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Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
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