Shipping Events

It's your first day at Example.com and your new boss swings by your desk to tell you about the first project you're going to tackle: log management. Your job is to consolidate log output to a central location from a variety of sources. You've got a wide variety of log sources you need to consolidate but you've been asked to start with consolidating and managing some Syslog events.

Later in the project we'll look at other log sources and by the end of the project all required events should be consolidated to a central server, indexed, stored, and then be searchable. In some cases you'll also need to configure some events to be sent on to new destinations, for example to alerting and metrics systems.

To do the required work you've ...

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