Logging (10)

• rsyslog 8 daily stable documentation (docs.rsyslog.com) reference
  official docs for the usual Linux syslog daemon: RainerScript routing, filtering, Kafka output
  System Administration #
• Introduction (syslog-ng documentation) reference
  admin and developer guides for the open-source edition: install, configure and tune log collection
  System Administration #
• journalctl(1) - Linux manual page (man7.org) reference
  querying and filtering the systemd journal: field matches, boot ranges, output formats
  Command Line Init System #
• Fluentd | Open Source Data Collector (fluentd.org) tool
  CNCF unified logging layer decoupling log sources from backend stores; Apache-2.0
  Observability #
• Vector (vector.dev) tool
  Rust pipeline collecting, transforming and routing logs and metrics via sources/transforms/sinks
  Observability #
• Grafana Loki OSS | Log aggregation system (Grafana Labs) tool
  label-indexed log aggregation inspired by Prometheus, cheap to store; AGPLv3 with hosted Grafana Cloud option
  Observability #
• OpenTelemetry (OpenTelemetry) tool
  Vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs and collector for traces, metrics and logs; swap backends freely
  Distributed Tracing Observability #
• The Logfile Navigator (The Logfile Navigator) tool
  auto-detects log formats, unpacks compressed files and queries them through SQLite; no server or setup
  Command Line Text Processing #
• System and Service Manager (systemd.io) tool
  Upstream home of PID 1: service manager plus journald, networkd, resolved and the unit ecosystem
  Init System #
• rsyslog – the rocket-fast system for log processing pipelines (rsyslog) tool
  collects, transforms and routes event data at high volume; 100+ input/output modules, plus a Windows agent
  Observability #