jedimstr Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 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. 2 Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Good idea, especially for people that have weird crashes and no way to know the last few log entries! Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 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? Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
jedimstr Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 (edited) 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, 2017 by jedimstr Quote Link to comment
Tuftuf Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
hamish_18 Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 I too would like to see an option in the gui for syslog forwarding. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
csmccarron Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I would be happy if I could just put the syslog on the flash drive so I can better troubleshoot crashes. Quote Link to comment
pauloj Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment
-Daedalus Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 +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. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 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 6 Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 2 hours ago, bonienl said: Mirror syslog to flash - used for troubleshooting: I have the copyright on the term "Troubleshooting Mode" 😁 Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Troublemaker is more applicable for you 😁 Quote Link to comment
pauloj Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 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) Quote Link to comment
hamish_18 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 YAY! thank you!! Will be very nice for diagnostics. Quote Link to comment
IamSpartacus Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 @bonienl You are really killing it with the enhancements over the past few updates. Really appreciative of your work. Quote Link to comment
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