15 Mar
2010
15 Mar
'10
9:08 p.m.
I find remote logging quite frustrating.
The best interface I found for it was php-syslog-ng - and now that has been
deprecate in place of logzilla - which is a java blob.
The good news is that php-syslog-ng can put the logs into a MySQL database,
then it's simple enough to create a very basic PHP+MySQL interface to view
the data that I need.
It's really not slick though, so would welcome other people's approaches.
Andy
On 15 March 2010 21:02, Kai Hendry <hendry(a)webconverger.com> wrote:
On 14 March 2010 10:36, Andy Smith
<andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
I hear things like Splunk are good but really
expensive.
I tried Splunk, though IIUC it runs locally. It's just a bunch of
python scripts. It also uses Flash all over the place so the Web app
feels clunky and of course would never be useful from a mobile Web
browser.
So I went off and tried https://landscape.canonical.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/4428825253/
However the Landscape service also does not collate logs and I wrote
to Canonical asking why. They replied: """
We currently don't capture any logs by default. The reason for this
is simply data volume: we would use a lot of bandwidth collecting
the logs that would be interesting to a lot of people and, for the
most part, that would end up being a waste of resources. Instead,
we recommend you use script execution to fetch logs from one or more
computers at a time when you need to view them."""
I can't help but wonder, what the future for logging holds. Right now
it's a pretty shoddy state of affairs.
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