Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/04
For my link archive:
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “My Ubiquity setup stopped working (again). This happens way to often in my opinion. I have setup a monitoring environment to debug the issues and consider it not reliable enough for the amount of money I spend on it.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Rick on Twitter: “@jilles_com Waar heb je problemen mee? En ik tijdelijk een syslog server draaien. Dan je kun je gemakkelijker de logs doorspitten (kiwi heeft een simpele gratis versie)”
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “@RickvanSoest Ik draai een grafana setup met syslog, snmp ingest en een losse traceroute om uit te sluiten of het aan de provider of de hardware ligt.”
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “@RickvanSoest Software upgrades die falen. In dit geval een PoE switch die op z’n gat lag. In dit geval iets dat met een reboot gefixt is. Maar in geval van de upgrade was het een compleet nieuwe configuratie.”
In todays cross-platform world, it pays if your tooling can send logging to syslog.
Though originating from the CP/M and SunOS background, I have done most of my professional development work in Windows back-ends and front-ends, so here are some links relevant to that:
- Via [Wayback/Archive] .net – how to write to kiwi syslog server log c# – Stack Overflow:
- [Wayback/Archive] Janik Vonrotz – Forward Windows event log entries to syslog server
- Via [Wayback/Archive] features [Ararat Synapse]:
- Edit 20240811: new location of this unit, Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Steven Kamradt!
[Wayback/Archive] delphi-synapse/slogsend.pas at master · dimmaq/delphi-synapse (note this is from an old fork , I have to dig for a more recent synapse git repository as their main repository is SVN based [Wayback/Archive] Ararat Synapse download | SourceForge.net)
[Wayback/Archive] synapse/slogsend.pas at master · geby/synapse · GitHub - [Wayback/Archive] slogsend
BSD SYSLOG protocol
Used RFC: RFC-3164
- Edit 20240811: new location of this unit, Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Steven Kamradt!
- Via [Wayback/Archive] Syslog & Windows Event Log Utilities – I made this – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]:
--jeroen
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Steven Kamradt said
Jeroen, the “official” synapse link you mentioned is on github as https://github.com/geby/synapse/blob/master/slogsend.pas
jpluimers said
Thanks so much for this. Will update the article shortly.