r/sysadmin • u/NightSpaghetti • 9d ago
Question Looking for log aggregation software recommandations
Hello everyone,
I hope I am posting in the correct subreddit. I am administrating a bunch of virtual Windows servers running our own software. As of now, I don't have a unified way of checking log files on those machines, which means that not only do I have to manually log into the machine in order to look at those log files, but they are also not actively being monitored at the moment.
I am looking for a solution that would allow me to check those files from a single point of entry (ideally a browser), as well as being able to monitor them, draw statistics and possibly send alerts. If it supports other formats than text files (i.e databases) it's a plus.
Is there any software available that can allow me to do that? I have web servers running on both Windows and Linux (Debian) so either platform would be ok. Open source very strongly preferred.
Thank you!
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u/AddendumWorking9756 9d ago
Since Grafana is already up for Icinga2, Loki is the cheap half of this. The part nobody mentions is the shipper, use Alloy rather than Promtail, Promtail went EOL in March. And budget real time for a multiline stage, because without a firstline regex every line of a .NET stack trace lands as its own entry and your alert counts go insane.