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Questions tagged [logging]

Recording activity on the system (or of a particular program) for later reporting and analysis. Logins, logouts, web server page requests, etc might all be logged.

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Does MSSQL Server have the equivalent of MySQL's query logs?

I have used MySQL for a long time and have found the general query log and the slow query log to be very useful in finding out what is happening on the server, and in identifying bottlenecks. Now I need to use SQL Server. Does SQL Server have…
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How do I log authentication attempts with samba?

I have users authenticating with squid (NTLM) to an Active Directory server using Samba 3.5.4 and I'd like to log users' login attempts. I'd like a line showing something like: TIMESTAMP username@DOMAIN SUCCESS/FAILURE
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Get list of user-agents from nginx log

I have nginx log file, and I want to find out market share for each major version of browsers. I am not interested in minor versions and operating systems. I would like to get something like this: 100 IE6 99 IE7 20 IE8 200 FF2 300 FF3 I know how…
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Spamassassin logging scores

I have the Spamassassin 3.4 + Ubuntu 14 + Qmail + Clamav. All are running OK. When a SPAM is detected, it is marked as [spam] and delivered to recipients. Readind the spamd log (mail.log for me), I grep these lines: Jul 14 17:32:36 mail spamd[2575]:…
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Postgres 8.3 on Ubuntu. Where are the server logs?

Postgres 8.3 on Ubuntu. Where are the server logs? I'm sure there must be a standard place it puts them.
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View unbuffered log output from journalctl

I have several systemd services defined. They log both to disk and also to the systemd journal, which I can monitor using journalctl -n 0 -fu myservice. However, I notice that the logs that I see from the journalctl tail command are often several…
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How to forward Docker container logs to ELK?

I would like to know what is the easiest way to forward my docker container logs to an ELK server, so far the solutions I have tried after having searched the internet didn't work at all. Basically I have a docker image that I run using…
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Nginx log to syslog on TCP port

I need to redirect Nginx access and error logs to a remote syslog server. From http://nginx.org/en/docs/syslog.html I saw that I can do: error_log syslog:server=192.168.1.1; However I need to redirect to a specific TCP (not UDP!) port and I tried…
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nginx not logging errors to log files

I recently moved my CentOS 7 machine from Apache to nginx, and I am still working out the differences. One issue I have noticed for only one of my server blocks is that access and error log files are not actually being logged to, making it difficult…
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How to configure a log aggregator to authenticate data?

Background: Remote log aggregation is regarded as a way to improve security. Generally, this addresses the risk that an attacker who compromises a system can edit or delete logs to frustrate forensic analysis. I've been researching security options…
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Windows Events for Remote Desktop logon failure

According to ref the logon types 10 and 3 in windows events are represnting Logon Type 10 = RemoteInteractive Logon & Logon Type 3 = Network Logon But when i tried to connect a Windows machine via "Remote Desktop Connection" with a wrong username…
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Adding timestamps to supervisord logs

Is it possible to let supervisord add timestamps to the outputs in stdout_logfile and stderr_logfile? I couldn't find it anything about that in the documentation.
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tail -f not following log file in Docker container

I am seeing some strange behavior running the tail -f command inside a Docker container in CoreOS. There are a number of variables I can think of that may be contributing to the problem but I am not sure what I need to do to troubleshoot first. On…
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Nginx: How to use docker log collector when nginx is running under supervisord

The official nginx docker image (Dockerfile) uses the following trick to hand off its logs to stdout and stderr so that they are captured by the docker log collector and viewable using docker logs : # forward request and error logs…
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get server stats from a specfic time

On my server this morning I noticed that an application reported it was running slow. I checked the web and sql logs and found nothing special. I would like to know what was going on at about 2am this morning. Im looking for specifically the cpu and…
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