#29393: Set up a loghost -------------------------------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: ln5 | Owner: tpa Type: task | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: -------------------------------------------------+---------------------
Comment (by anarcat): so just to formalize this, here are the questions we should answer first here: 1. what is the purpose of setting up a log host? I can imagine a few reasons myself, but would prefer if that was stated in the request 2. do we use syslog or something else that's more searchable? (ELK, Loki, etc) 3. do we still log on the individual hosts? or do we '''forward''' all the logs on the central server and keep nothing locally? (because that could break stuff like the postfix exporter) 4. what about non-syslog logs? should those be centralized as well? 5. which hardware? I'd be down for setting up something like this and, in the infrared working groups, there's been talk of looking at this problem specifically. I know a fellow sysadmin has been experimenting with "log forwarding" that is, a simple syslogd running on a central server, and all other syslogd '''forward''' their logs to the server, and write nothing locally. They are worried about disks being overloaded with I/O and things relying on logs on the remote servers being present, but so far things go well. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29393#comment:2> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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