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Did VictoriaLogs miss any logs during the reboot?

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Yesterday, I modified r730-01 by Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 – as a consequence, my log collecting jail was offline. Did it miss any logs? Let’s find out. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 (sending logs from FreshPorts production) victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 (receiving logs in the logs jail The period in question Looking at /var/log/messages, I see: With syslogd now stopped, there are no further logs until: NOTE: I had not set the logs jail […]

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Adding syslog-ng to a host to extract Nginx logs

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This replaces and combines two earlier posts: Replacing syslogd with syslog-ng (sysutils/syslog-ng) on FreeBSD. Getting Nginx logs into Victoria-Logs I just got Victoria Logs running. Now I want to get logs into it. For starters, I want to get the logs on the host itself into Victoria Logs. I figure this is a log-risk experiment. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 I’m installing syslog-ng on a host (x8dtu) The nginx logs reside

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Getting Nginx logs into Victoria-Logs – v2

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VictoriaLogs is feature rich, which means at this point, I know very little about it. However, this post has been deprecated by a newer post which covers more material. I do know that the original syslog-ng configuration I supplied in Getting Nginx logs into Victoria-Logs is now less complicated. With the help of duck.ai, I managed to reduce it. Now it’s sending the json without running it through a parser. In this post:

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VictoriaLogs: Adding syslog-ng to a host and ingesting nginx log from jails

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This post is more self-documentation than anything else. The links in this post might be useful than the content. However, this post has been deprecated by a newer post which covers more material. Today I’ll start pulling production FreshPorts nginx logs into VictoriaLogs. Over the past few days, I’ve configured a proof-of-concept and now I’m ready to try this in prod. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 (installed on the host aws-1) nginx-1.30.2_2,3 (running

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Getting Nginx logs into Victoria-Logs

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My goal today: get nginx logs into Victoria-Logs. I’ve already gotten Victoria-Logs running on FreeBSD and replaced syslog with syslog-ng to get TLS NOTE: This post was originally only about Nginx. I’ve since added general syslog messages to the configuration. However, this post has been deprecated by a newer post which covers more material. Also, the Adding an nginx proxy in front of Victoria-Labs post might be helpful before proceeding here. Over the

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Replacing syslogd with syslog-ng (sysutils/syslog-ng) on FreeBSD

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I just got Victoria Logs running. Now I want to get logs into it. For starters, I want to get the logs on the host itself into Victoria Logs. I figure this is a log-risk experiment. However, this post has been deprecated by a newer post which covers more material. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 I will be using TLS between syslog-ng and victoria-logs – you will notice this is all

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