Logging News and Articles

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Eloquent

As systems grow more complex and distributed, managing and making sense of logs used for monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting can become a daunting task. Fluentd and its lighter counterpart Fluent Bit can help you unify data collection and consumption to make sense of logging data.
Logging , Monitoring , troubleshooting
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Analyzing Logs

Log analysis can be used to great effect in HPC systems. We present an overview of the current log analysis technologies.

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Log Management

One of the more mundane, perhaps boring, but necessary administration tasks is checking system logs – the source of knowledge or intelligence of what is happening in the cluster.

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Harden services with systemd

A Hard Nut to Crack

Systemd comes with a metric for determining the security of your system, letting you track how any service can be secured step-by-step in a sandbox.
analysis , Linux , Security , systemd
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Portable home directory with state-of-the-art security

Home, Sweet Home

The systemd Homed service makes it easy to move your home directory, and FIDO2 or PKCS#11 can secure the stored files.
data , Security , systemd
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Collecting application logfiles with Kubernetes

Attentive Co-Driver

Modern scale-out environments with containers make log collection difficult. We present concepts and methods for collecting application logfiles with a sidecar container in Kubernetes environments.
containers , data , Kubernetes , Logging
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Save sudo logs on a remote computer

Collection Point

One of the new features implemented in the current 1.9 version of the sudo tool is the ability to save sudo logs locally and on a remote computer.
Administration , Logging , network , tools
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Central logging for Kubernetes users

Shape Shifter

Grafana's Loki is a good replacement candidate for the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana combination in Kubernetes environments.
containers , Kubernetes , Logging , Storage
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Log Everything

To be a good HPC system administrator for today’s environment, you need to be a lumberjack.

 

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Better Logging

In most cases, log messages are managed by a Syslog server. The Fedora project wants to take a new approach in future releases. This change is to come from systemd’s journal.

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