Hi, yes, use syslog. tail and tailDir has some limitations and issues.
Did you took an eye to flumeNG? Flume is completely rewritten and match perfect your project. https://cwiki.apache.org/FLUME/getting-started.html#GettingStarted-BuildingFromSource best, Alex -- Alexander Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com On Feb 25, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Ryan Chan wrote: > I am new to Flume, just a quick question: > > Q, I have 10 web servers and need to centralize the access log for analyses > purpose, I have done some research and basically you have two way to send the > log to the "collector", that is using the syslog or tailing the access log > files. > > In term of scalability and reliability, which method you would suggest? For > me, seems syslog is more reliable. Any comments? > > Thanks.
