[syslog-ng] Best way to manage apache's access logs

Nik Ambrosch nik at ambrosch.com
Tue Mar 26 14:14:00 UTC 2019


I would like to replace apache's file logger entirely, using syslog-ng to
write to both network and local disk instead of just using apache to write
to disk and syslog-ng to write to network.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:08 AM Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would follow the files using the wildcard-file() source, possibly with
> marking them up with apache specific name-value pairs that we extract from
> filenames and/or content.
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 06:48 Nik Ambrosch <nik at ambrosch.com wrote:
>
>> How are people managing their apache access logs using syslog-ng these
>> days - still just piping through logger?  I'm looking to take over logging
>> entirely using syslog-ng, not just reading files from disk and sending to
>> ES or something.
>>
>> In the past I've used cronolog, which works fine, but I'd love the
>> flexibility of sending the logs through syslog-ng.
>>
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