I’m pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it’s no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever neccessarly.

I’ve looked at grafana and tried the agent briefly, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought (and it might be a too big tool for my needs). So I thought to ask the linuxlemmy community to get some inspiration.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Holy guacamole this (edit: lnav) is pretty good! Probably does not solve collection of logs from multiple systems, but for local inspection (or after having files copied elsewhere) it seems to be a real powertool

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      1 year ago

      Rsyslog to collect logs to a single server, then lnav for viewing them on that server is a good combo. Oldschool but very effective for self-host scale.

      Glad the tip was useful!