[CentOS] Fwd: Centos and logs

[Steve Clark]

On 11/18/2014 10:25 AM, zep wrote:
> On 11/18/2014 10:03 AM, Alan Holt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> may be anyone familiar with some tool for viewing logs.
>> I mean web-interface based, simple solution.
> you say 'servers': plural, which leads me to think you're doing
> load balancing or otherwise have multiple servers which seems
> like another layer to consider for your puzzle.
>
>> I have developers, and I can't give them access to my Centos servers, but
>> they want to see logs of Apache. I want to give them address like
>> 172.17.17.21/logs and they will be able to watch logs of Apache in browser.
>>
>> I was looking a lot for something like this, but didn't find.
>> Alex.
>>
>> *UPD: *something very simple like phpMemcachedAdmin or familiar to this
>> Thank you.
> I would consider something like splunk (or more likely one of the
> free alternatives) and a setup like:
>
> (users) ---public interface --> [webserver] -private interface --\
>      -- for logs-->[splunk/log collector]<----(developers)
>
> and make sure there are acls/firewall rules in place to just allow
> your developers access (http logs may well include some data that
> you don't want to get out to the public, like if someone implements a
> cgi as a get instead of a post but has sensitive data included)
>
We are using loganalyzer from the same people that do rsyslog.

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