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

[Evan Rempel]

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
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