[ILUG] Log Management Software?

[Josh Glover]

2009/3/6 Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com>:

> I was originally thinking about Nagios, which, I believe does log management
> as well as systems monitoring,

Nagios does not do log management in any real way other than log scan alarms.

How do you want to "manage" your logs?
1. Rotation?
2. Retention on a central (fleet of) log box(en)?
3. Indexing?
4. Log scan alarms?
5. What am I leaving off here?

Nagios can do (4), and that's all, to the best of my knowledge. Note
that I know Nagios v1.3 very well, and versions after that not at all,
so my knowledge could be too dated to matter. But I doubt that they've
extended Nagios in a major architectural way to log management, since
monitoring is its raison d'etre, and log management is monitoring not
at all.

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Cheers,
Josh