[CentOS] central logging/analysis

Thu Nov 15 07:31:44 UTC 2007
David Hrbác( <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz>

Shibu C Varughese napsal(a):
> On 11/15/07, Johnny Tan <linuxweb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm interested in doing centralized logging & analysis of logs from my
>> CentOS boxes.
>>
>> I messed around with syslog-ng and it seems like it's a better syslog.
>> But I noticed most of the "usual suspects" of third-party repo
>> maintainers (Dag, Axel, etc.) don't include it. Karanbir has an el4
>> version, but all my boxes are CentOS 5.
>>
>> I was going to go ahead and roll my own RPM (or, rather, rebuild
>> Karanbir's el4 version), but it occurred to me to check what others were
>> using in this space. Just sticking with plain old syslogd? Paying for
>> splunk? Is there something else I haven't heard about?
>>
>> johnn

BTW "upstream" Fedora goes rsyslog way.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureRsyslog?highlight=%28syslog%29
David