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How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 22.04

Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they would eventually consume all available disk space on a system. In this article, we will explore the default Logrotate configuration, then configure log rotation for a fictional custom application.

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How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on CentOS 7—that is, Elasticsearch 1.7.3, Logstash 1.5.4, and Kibana 4.1.1. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How to Manage Logs with Graylog 2 on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Logs with Graylog 2 on Ubuntu 16.04

Graylog is a powerful open source log management platform. It aggregates and extracts important data from server logs, which are often sent using the syslog protocol. It also allows you to search and visualize the logs in a web interface. In this…

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How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of a legacy version of Elasticsearch ELK Stack on Ubuntu 14.04—that is, Elasticsearch 1.7.3, Logstash 1.5.4, and Kibana 4.1.1. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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