Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

Bill Campbell wrote:

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Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc...

We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related.

Did you have to do something to it to make it work with centos? I have one running on a machine that collects a lot of router syslogs and it has the annoying habit of resending a bunch of old notifications whenever a new one is noticed.