Tutorials

These tutorials cover specific rsyslog features and use cases.

• Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS (SSL)
  • Sample Use Case: Single Central Log Server
  • Setting up the CA
  • Generating the machine certificate
  • Setting up the Central Server
  • Setting up a client
  • Setting up the UDP syslog relay
  • Error Messages
  • Creating certificates with a script
  • Overview
• Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS (SSL) [short version]
  • Abstract
  • Background
  • Overall System Setup
  • Setting up the system
  • Certificates
  • Conclusion
  • Revision History
• Writing syslog messages to MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or any other supported Database
  • Abstract
  • Background
  • Overall System Setup
  • Setting up the system
  • On Reliability…
  • Conclusion
  • References and Additional Material
• Handling a massive syslog database insert rate with Rsyslog
  • Abstract
  • The Intention
  • How To Setup
  • Revision History
• Reliable Forwarding of syslog Messages with Rsyslog
  • Abstract
  • The Intention
  • How To Setup
  • See Also
  • Some Final Words on Reliability …
  • Revision History
• Recording the Priority of Syslog Messages
  • Abstract
  • Background
  • How is it done?
  • What if I do not want rsyslogd to be the standard syslogd?
  • Some Sample Data
• Failover Syslog Server
• Log rotation with rsyslog
  • Situation
  • Log rotation based on a fixed log size
  • Use Rainerscript rotation parameters for fixed-length syslog files
  • Conclusion
• GELF forwarding in rsyslog
  • Situation
  • Changing the default log format to GELF
  • Applying the template to a syslog action
  • Conclusion
• Log Sampling
  • Sampling strategies
• Random sampling
• Hash-based Sampling

Related

For complete production deployment guides, see:

• Production Deployments - Production-ready deployment stacks

• ROSI Collector - ROSI Collector with Grafana dashboards

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