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- 50 MB/month
- 48 hours search
- 7 days archive
- Unlimited systems
- Unlimited users
Table of Contents
1. Setup Linux Syslog Daemon to Send logs to Papertrail
Run the install script
wget -qO - --header="X-Papertrail-Token: ?xyy6KcSF3XguJCUpD?" \
https://papertrailapp.com/destinations/17347662/setup.sh | sudo bash
This script will make the syslog daemon send logs to Papertrail.
2. Aggregate Application Log Files to Send to Papertrail
Download Remote_Syslog2
root@backup-51sec-org-lemp-stack:/tmp# wget https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog2/releases/download/v0.20/remote-syslog2_0.20_i386.deb
If it is 64bit, you might want to use this command:
root@backup-51sec-org-lemp-stack:/tmp# wget https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog2/releases/download/v0.20/remote-syslog2_0.20_amd64.deb
Execute remote_syslog2
sudo remote_syslog \
-p 11218 \
-d logs6.papertrailapp.com \
--pid-file=/var/run/remote_syslog.pid \
/var/log/nginx/*.log
Or download a custom config file, save it in /etc/log_files.yml and run sudo remote_syslog.
root@backup-51sec-org-lemp-stack:/etc# cat /etc/log_files.yml
files:
- /var/log/nginx/*.log
destination:
host: logs6.papertrailapp.com
port: 11218
protocol: tls
pid_file: /var/run/remote_syslog.pid
root@backup-51sec-org-lemp-stack:/etc#
