Log management

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Maxim Burgerhout wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 15:29, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > octopussy is mostly perl and xml it looks like.  My main concern with it
> > is that it seems to have only one contributor.  Might be worth setting up
> > to look at though I'm not so sure we need real-time analysis.
>
> Ok, if the real-time analysis is not a hard requirement, octopussy
> becomes a lot less attractive. Doing things real-time is one of it's
> key features.
>
> > Personally I'd like to get general metrics from the logs and list errors /
> > warnings that we would care about.  The problem is we never really know
> > the format of some errors we get.  We had recently gotten some memory
> > errors from fedorahosted and no one noticed it until we happened to log in
> > and see it.
>
> Either of the other two options (lire and epylog) can do this, as
> every log line that doesn't match any specific rule gets printed in
> the daily report. I think this gives epylog the better papers, because
> it is already in Fedora. We might need to write some custom modules
> for it for it, but as it's just Python, I recon that'll be relatively
> easy. We can start off with the built-in modules and then create
> custom ones as time goes by and the need arises.
>
> Is building a central logserver an option at all, btw?
>

We have one already.

	-Mike