What are you using to ship the logs to VL?

That’s the reason I’m here asking about logging. I’m in the process of changing and wondering if I should switch it all up. I was using systemd-journal-remote, but I’m switching from Debian to Alpine so - no more systemd.

you should start excluding them before they reach VL

Now that confuses me. As I said in my original post - I had some preconceptions about centralised logging before I set it up, and having a single place to manage filters was certainly something I was hoping to get from it. Also any filtering would only be for reporting. I’d like to keep a full set of log data for potential problem analysis etc.

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.

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

I’m not sure if it’s Lemmy or my client (Jerboa) but when I tap on that link I don’t get their real Mastodon profile. I get something that looks legit, but it has minimal details and only one post from 9 months ago??