Journald vs Syslog Debate
Comments discuss and compare systemd's journald with traditional tools like rsyslog and syslog-ng for logging, focusing on binary vs. text formats, centralization, performance, and ease of access.
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why not pointing access_log/error_log to fifos and use rsyslog/syslog-ng to read direct from it?
That's what log aggregators are for.
I thought you just rely on rsyslog or journald for this stuff...
Doesn't the journald component of systemd do this? I seem to recall it was much reviled for exactly the problems you point out - that it is harder to work with than plaintext logs.
Doesn't systemd do that with journald?
It isn't right for server either. I want my server logs to be files in filesystem and readable with standard tools.
Looks really cool. Does this support standard syslogs as well? Or only journalctl logs?
Sounds like systemd stuff. Why deal with systemd. Use Apache customized logging as the parent comment suggested.
Have you seen any syslog server implementations that are significantly more performant than journald?
Aka how pretty much everybody stores logs already.