Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-17 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a lightweight forwarder which integrates with, say, Logstash. More lightweight than running rsyslog with local logging turned off? Is the overhead of rsyslog in such a

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a lightweight forwarder which integrates with, say, Logstash. More lightweight than running rsyslog with local logging turned off? Is the overhead of rsyslog in such a configuration really

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-17 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a lightweight forwarder which integrates with, say, Logstash. More lightweight than running rsyslog with

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:54:17PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: rsyslog has facilities to read from journal, send the full data in text, receive and read it back, and even write it back to journal at the destination. (Full disclosure I haven't actually tried such a chain up, and I wouldn't be

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-17 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 17.07.13 19:42, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a lightweight forwarder which integrates with, say, Logstash. More lightweight than running rsyslog with

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-17 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz wrote: rsyslog has facilities to read from journal, send the full data in text, receive and read it back, and even write it back to journal at the destination. (Full disclosure I haven't actually tried such a chain up, and I

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-16 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 18:39 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: I'm also pretty well sold on the idea that journald is better on the desktop. But that's not my thing. I agree. I would also like to stop the double-logging on the desktop. We're working on a graphical journal frontend now, and we will

cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Miller
I'm putting this in a separate thread so it doesn't get buried in the enthusiasm over the other one. :) Here's our dilemma (Or trilemma?) in the Fedora Cloud SIG. 1) Double-logging is a significant waste of scarce resources 2) If we disable persistent journald (the f19 approach), we lose the

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 15 July 2013 16:39, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I'm putting this in a separate thread so it doesn't get buried in the enthusiasm over the other one. :) Here's our dilemma (Or trilemma?) in the Fedora Cloud SIG. 1) Double-logging is a significant waste of scarce

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:21:02PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 1) Double-logging is a significant waste of scarce resources Well I can see IO resources as being scarse but how scarse are we really talking? [There comes a point where cutting down the size of an image isn't going to help

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/15/2013 11:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: journald doesn't have remote logging capabilities and it's my understanding that it's a non-goal. Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a lightweight forwarder which integrates with, say, Logstash. Well let's not forget and easily dismiss the

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:35:48PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/15/2013 11:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: journald doesn't have remote logging capabilities and it's my understanding that it's a non-goal. Personally, I'd be interested in seeing a lightweight forwarder which

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 15.07.13 17:21, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: On 15 July 2013 16:39, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I'm putting this in a separate thread so it doesn't get buried in the enthusiasm over the other one. :) Here's our dilemma (Or trilemma?) in the

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: Well, the duplicate log files will be accounted for every instance of a container/VM. The more containers you run, the more often you pay for it. This is different than just having one package installed too much in the image,

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:27:57PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de said: Well, the duplicate log files will be accounted for every instance of a container/VM. The more containers you run, the more often you pay for it. This is different

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:27:57PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: If it isn't too much of a thread-drift - this brings to mind another question: how are the journal files rotated, archived, etc.? I don't see anything in the man page. You can also use time-based rotation policies, but it's not very

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl said: The total space taken by journal is limited by size and percantage of free space on the /var/log/journal filesystem [1], and age [2]. Individual journal files are limited by size and age [3,4]. Thanks, I see there's a

Re: cloud images and journald/rsyslog

2013-07-15 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:46:55PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl said: The total space taken by journal is limited by size and percantage of free space on the /var/log/journal filesystem [1], and age [2]. Individual journal files