undefined | Better HN

0 pointsdijit5y ago0 comments

This comment denotes, strongly, the dissonance that occurs when talking about something so general.

It’s my opinion (as an infrastructure type) that centralised binary logging is an absolute necessity above 20 instances.

But that leaves out every person with a laptop, or those people with a very low volume of little instances.

Structured logging is difficult, that’s why logstash is so flexible about input and conversions. And I think that was the impetus for systemd’s journals; to log structurally.

However. The parent is wrong if he thinks decisions should be made under low disk conditions. Having a rotate rule to keep your sliding window of logs to a certain size is fine. But your servers (and laptops, and desktops) should not be taking arbitrary decisions based on this kind of condition.

0 comments

secabeen5y ago

> This comment denotes, strongly, the dissonance that occurs when talking about something so general.

> It’s my opinion (as an infrastructure type) that centralised binary logging is an absolute necessity above 20 instances.

> But that leaves out every person with a laptop, or those people with a very low volume of little instances.

Yep, it also leaves out people on embedded hardware, and on devices that are in remote locations without access to the Internet, or in a car, or on metered Internet, etc. It's hard to hold in your head just how broadly Linux is used these days.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse