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Jun 17 2026

Getting Nginx logs into Victoria-Logs

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Monitoring, Open Source, syslog-ng, Victoria Logs / By Dan Langille / June 17, 2026

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. Also, the Adding an nginx proxy in front of Victoria-Labs post might be helpful before proceeding here. Over the past 48 hours or so, I’ve managed to get Nginx logs flowing from an […]

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Adding an nginx proxy in front of Victoria-Labs

Victoria-Logs has an built-in UI – and it’s easier for me to access via my web browser if I put Nginx in front of it. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 nginx-1.30.2_2,3/li> Victoria Logs config This is the main configuration, as found in /etc/rc.conf: Those \ and multiple lines, yea, don’t do that, put it all on one line. I’ve done that above to make it easier for you to read. Nginx This