ledbion.blogg.se - Copy log messages to another file

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TAG - contains name of program that generated the message.HOST - name of host, which generated the message.

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According to RFC 3194, it also can have time format of ISO 8601: T18:45:01.519832+03:00 with better precision and timezone.

TIMESTAMP - time, usually in format like Feb 6 18:45:01.

Severity has values from 0(emergency, most important) to 7(debug, least important).

Last 8 - from local0 to local7 - are used for services outside this predefined categories.

Facility has values from 0 to 23 for different system services: 0 - kernel, 2 - mail, 7 - news.

Transferred over network syslog message looks something like this: For the worst cases since rsyslog 5th version you can define custom parsers. For example, rsyslog has special module to parse format used by CISCO IOS. In fact, everybody is implementing syslog as he likes, and syslog server has the task to interpret anything it receives. Here you can read what rsyslog author Rainer Gerhards does think about syslog standard situation. In 20 was approved, defining structured messages, but it is rarely used.

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Later IETF tried to create standard format in RFC 3165, but this document was inconvenient, at this moment there is no any alive software implementation. Implementations vary a lot, so it states “The payload of any IP packet that has a UDP destination port of 514 MUST be treated as a syslog message”. In 2001 IETF described current situation in RFC 3164(status “informational”).

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There were no standard, everybody was writing code just to be compatible with existing software. Syslog appeared in 80-x, and quickly became logging standard for Unix-like OS and network hardware. Observation: users are entering card number into every input field on a page, and sometimes try to tell it together with CVV to support. The nuance is: if somebody entered card number in search or contacts form, and you saved the query, you have broke the requirement. For example, PCI DSS in section 3.4 requires to mask or cypher card numbers, in case they are saved on disk. Unusual requrement, but sometimes it’s necessary. Allows to change message before saving and forwarding.Can be used in embedded systems after some tuning. It has more complex setup, but a lot more features then competitor solutions.įor example, Elastic Filebeat still can not use inofity.

Some software, like haproxy, uses only syslog.

It is standard for logging in POSIX-like systems.

Why use syslog in our days? We have elastic beats, logstash, systemd-journal-remote and a lot more of new shiny technologies?

Forward all log files with name matching wildcard, save separately on server with the same names.

For new log files client reconfiguration is sufficient, server reconfiguration is not required.

If server is unavailable, do not lose messages, but preserve them and and send later.

Logs written by application and read by rsyslog.

This is translation of my original article in russian