March 4, 20179 yr It would be great to have a WebGUI Settings option for remote syslog host setup. I know there are ways to setup remote syslog with custom go scripts to copy conf files so settings can be retained on reboot, but it always seems so kludgy to do things that way. Implicit support for setting up a remote syslog host to point the unraid syslog to would make life so much easier for those of us who like to parse everything on the network with tools like Splunk.
August 8, 20178 yr Good idea, especially for people that have weird crashes and no way to know the last few log entries!
August 8, 20178 yr 6 minutes ago, bjp999 said: Good idea, especially for people that have weird crashes and no way to know the last few log entries! Yeah, but how many people are going to set up a syslog server to support this request?
August 8, 20178 yr Just now, bonienl said: Yeah, but how many people are going to set up a syslog server to support this request? Even if you setup unRAID to be ITS OWN syslog server, and log to a disk instead of to RAM, it would be useful in problem solving scenarios.
August 8, 20178 yr Author 13 minutes ago, bonienl said: Yeah, but how many people are going to set up a syslog server to support this request? Well, I use a Splunk docker container for parsing the syslogs from all my home's servers and various network devices that have remote syslog capability (virtually all of them including routers, switches, wifi access points, console KVM servers, IOT devices, set top boxes, other docker containers, VirtualMachines, etc). It's pretty silly that everything on my network can feed their logs to Splunk on one of my unRAID servers, but the 2 unRAID servers I run don't. There are a lot of us using unRAID with Splunk or ELK setup for all our syslogs. It's kind of a basic feature for anything that deems itself a "server". There are hacky ways of making it work, but it's really something that should be available in Settings. Edited August 8, 20178 yr by jedimstr
August 8, 20178 yr It does seem to be something that should just be there as an option. I'm already running Splunk as a docker on unraid and soon I'll have a second unraid box after my microserver is retired from its pfsense duties.
August 15, 20178 yr On 8/8/2017 at 8:00 AM, bjp999 said: Even if you setup unRAID to be ITS OWN syslog server, and log to a disk instead of to RAM, it would be useful in problem solving scenarios. Exactly this. I have a SSD sitting there anyways. Fill it up some.
September 25, 20178 yr I would be happy if I could just put the syslog on the flash drive so I can better troubleshoot crashes.
February 4, 20197 yr Has there been any development in adding this as a feature? I am very interested in having this as an option, as others seem to be as well.
February 4, 20197 yr +1 from me. How many people have we had reporting lock-ups, restarts, crashes, etc. and can't grab diags. I'm surprised this hasn't been implemented before now, for your own sanity, to be honest.
February 4, 20197 yr So many plusses ... I created a new syslog server functionality in the GUI, which allows the following Local syslog server - let the Unraid server act as central syslog server and collect messages from other devices in your network Remote syslog server - let the Unraid server sent syslog messages to a remote (central) syslog server Mirror syslog to flash - used for troubleshooting: syslog messages are mirrored to flash for later examination
February 4, 20197 yr 2 hours ago, bonienl said: Mirror syslog to flash - used for troubleshooting: I have the copyright on the term "Troubleshooting Mode" 😁
February 5, 20197 yr 11 hours ago, bonienl said: So many plusses ... I created a new syslog server functionality in the GUI, which allows the following Local syslog server - let the Unraid server act as central syslog server and collect messages from other devices in your network Remote syslog server - let the Unraid server sent syslog messages to a remote (central) syslog server Mirror syslog to flash - used for troubleshooting: syslog messages are mirrored to flash for later examination This is really great, thank you Bonienl Bonienl is this feature in the latest release of Unraid? (If so can you point out where its located as I cant seem to find it) Or is this going to be in the next release? Thanks again.
February 5, 20197 yr 12 minutes ago, pauloj said: This is really great, thank you Bonienl Bonienl is this feature in the latest release of Unraid? (If so can you point out where its located as I cant seem to find it) Or is this going to be in the next release? Thanks again. It will be included in Unraid 6.7.0-rc3 (next release)
February 5, 20197 yr @bonienl You are really killing it with the enhancements over the past few updates. Really appreciative of your work.
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