Ian asked me to post my thoughts here. I am not in favour of applications rolling their own logs, I believe that applications should not know anything about their log output, they should just dump it all to stdout and another process should take care of shuttling the data, logging it, culling it, whatever.
This is summarised here, http://12factor.net/logs I think our current system with rsyslog is working fine and there is no reason to remove it. The problems with all-machines.log being to large is independent of log rolling or any of these other arguments. We simply log too much. There would be no request for log rolling it all-machines.log contained only useful data. Dave On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Nate Finch <nate.fi...@canonical.com> wrote: > So, rsyslog rotation works fine on Linux, but we can't do that on Windows. > If we have to do something different for Windows, I'd rather just do one > thing which is cross platform compatible for all our OSes, and not have to > support a different configuration for each OS. Doing it all in-application > also insulates us from external dependencies... if some future or past > Ubuntu series (or CentOS) has a different version of rsyslog, it could > behave differently / require a different configuration, etc. > > > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:40 PM, David Britton <david.brit...@canonical.com> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:03:21PM -0400, Nate Finch wrote: >> [...] >> > remote syslog and to the local file log, we wouldn't need to worry about >> > log rotation of the local log screwing up what gets sent to the remote >> >> Do the standard rsyslog log rotation mechanisms not function well? >> >> On Windows, what about the event log (which has remote >> viewing/aggregation capabilities built in)? >> >> -- >> David Britton <david.brit...@canonical.com> > > > > -- > Juju-dev mailing list > Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev > -- Juju-dev mailing list Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
