In this chapter, we focus on a topic where we spend most of our time troubleshooting as a Linux sysadmin: logs.
We will explore different logging systems that you can use, how to read logs, how to increase the information we get from logs, and how we look after our systems so logs do not cause us more issues. Finally, we will explore how logs should be offloaded to external logging systems in a neat and secure manner.
Linux Logging Systems
There are a few different options that can be used for system and application logs. By default, all Linux systems are installed with syslog to manage ...