Introduction Centralized log visibility across various systems is necessary and modern organizations must adhere to stringent compliance requirements. For audit and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) purposes a dependable log forwarding pipeline is necessary whether it is for monitoring authentication, events, system...
In our previous blog, we have covered the basics of fluentd, the lifecycle of fluentd events and the primary directives involved. In this blog, we'll configure fluentd to dump tomcat logs to Elasticsearch. We'll also talk about filter directive/plugin and how to configure it to add hostname field in the event stream. Fluentd...
Whenever we talk about Log Analysis which is to create some sense out of the computer generated records, we always need some tools which can first collect these logs from different devices, operating systems or any applications. These tools are generally termed as Log Collectors. There are two popular log collectors - Logstash &...