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Any Victoria Logs advice or alternatives (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I run a small home lab - number of servers varies from time to time. Currently five, all Linux.

When I heard about log consolidation I imagined that I would get a nice dashboard type view where I could see a consolidated, real time, view of all my server logs go by. Victoria Logs does that for me. I also imagined that there would be a way to flag particular log entries as "normal, and expected" so they would be excluded in the future - the goal being to get this dashboard to a state where if anything appears, it's probably bad. I can't see a way to do that in Victoria Logs. Do I need to try harder? If Victoria Logs won't do it - is there anything that will?

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

VL is really about aggregation, not displaying it. You'd probably just need to setup a grafana dashboard with filters for all your normal traffic

[–] hades@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In case you decide to look for alternatives, I would probably go with elastic/filebeat/grafana, a fairly standard log monitoring suite. Not saying it’s better or worse than Victoria Logs, which i have no experience with.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm already running a grafana instance, so I'll look into elastic/filebeat. Thanks.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Elastic is heaaaaavy. You might want to check out Loki, I haven't used it but I think it'd be easier to get started with than Victoria logs since it integrates tightly with grafana

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've been doing some more reading. Victoria Logs is doing a good job consolidating my logs and is very lightweight. It's the visualisation that I'm missing. Grafana can do it, but I'm having trouble getting my head around it. That's OK - it's just my home lab and it's mainly a learning exercise - I need to learn some more.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 43 minutes ago

Yeah I use VL for lemmy.ca and it's super quick and lightweight, but getting what you want into grafana can be difficult.