[syslog-ng] [request for feedback] syslog fundamentals post

[Radu Gheorghe]

Hi Evan,

I haven't heard of this one, I don't even see the grain of truth in
it. But yes, I also hope it would be debunked even if it's not
specifically mentioned.

Best regards,
Radu
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:
> One of the "complaints" I read about frequently is that syslog is to slow so
> the application developer should write logs directly to files. That is a
> myth that  I think whould be debunked.
>
> Evan
>
>
> On 01/31/2017 04:39 AM, Radu Gheorghe wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just wrote a blog post that tries to disambiguate the word "syslog"
>> and clarify
>> the myths I heard around it (as I'm sure you know, there's a lot of
>> vagueness):
>>
>> https://sematext.com/blog/2017/01/30/what-is-syslog-daemons-message-formats-and-protocols/
>>
>> Obviously, syslog-ng is an important chunk of it, so I wanted to ask
>> for any feedback you may have (did I miss something important
>> regarding syslog-ng? is there something wrong or something else you'd
>> want to see there?) whichever way you prefer to send it (here, on the
>> blog post comments, personal Email or Twitter...).
>>
>> Thanks in advance and best regards,
>> Radu
>> --
>> Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
>> Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/
>
>
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