Loggly Log Monitoring

StrongBad

Very nice. How much do you get for free? What makes you move to a paid account?

scottalanmiller

@StrongBad It is based on log volume. You can send up to 200MB per day on the free tier. If you need more than 200MB, you have to pay. Also if you need longer retention periods, that isn't available with free. And alerting is paid only.

NetworkNerd

I don't think you can give me credit for implementation. I tried and found my Unix skills were not up to snuff. When that happens, you tag @scottalanmiller.

coliver

What kind of logs will this accept? Is there an agent on the servers?

scottalanmiller

Pretty much anything. You can use an agent (easy) or configure logs to send directly to them (hard.) Setting it up for Linux or Windows system logs is dead simple. They have guides to how to use just about anything. If you have internal log collection like FluentD or LogStash then you can route to that and have that send to Loggly.

You can add Loggly logging to your own applications or you can have apps like Apache or Nginx send directly.

Loggly will also monitor files, so you can easily ad hoc monitor anything that creates a text file.