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Idea #21646

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Investigate capabilities of logging systems

Added by Peter Amstutz 9 months ago. Updated 2 months ago.

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Description

Things we'd like to know:

  • Structured logging / ability to search specific fields
  • Size limits
  • Performance (how many log entries per second can it handle)
  • Remote capabilities (want to be able to send logs to a central host)
    • How quickly do logs appear on the remote host
  • Ease of integration with standard logging libraries we use for Go/Python
  • CLI and web UI for doing queries
  • Archiving / log rotation
  • Integration with cloud provider (AWS) log management
  • Ease of deployment

The main options we know of are syslog, journald and AWS logwatch

Actions #1

Updated by Peter Amstutz 9 months ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #2

Updated by Peter Amstutz 9 months ago

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Actions #3

Updated by Lucas Di Pentima 9 months ago

Just want to nominate a project worth looking into, I've used it a long long time ago and it was great: https://www.fluentd.org

Actions #4

Updated by Peter Amstutz 5 months ago

Grafana Alloy:

https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/introduction/

is a distribution of OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector:

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

It seems that Loki can accept logs it its own format a well as OTel, so presumably that Alloy uses.

It's unclear if Logrus has a hook for OTel. It does have one for Loki.

https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/wiki/Hooks

Actions #5

Updated by Peter Amstutz 5 months ago

Answering the question in the description for Loki:

  • Structured logging / ability to search specific fields

yes

  • Size limits

don't know

  • Performance (how many log entries per second can it handle)

don't know

  • Remote capabilities (want to be able to send logs to a central host)

Yes

  • How quickly do logs appear on the remote host

don't know

  • Ease of integration with standard logging libraries we use for Go/Python

Available for Go, haven't looked at Python yet.

  • CLI and web UI for doing queries

yes. CLI client exist, WebUI is integrated with Grafana.

  • Archiving / log rotation

yes, has retention rules https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/operations/storage/retention/

  • Integration with cloud provider (AWS) log management

Seems like there's work on integration with OTel.

  • Ease of deployment

Has published deb packages.

Actions #6

Updated by Peter Amstutz 5 months ago

Need to address access control.

Actions #7

Updated by Peter Amstutz 2 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
Actions #8

Updated by Peter Amstutz 2 months ago

  • Target version deleted (Future)
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