I’m pretty new to selfhosting, but one thing that I know to take seriously is log collection. Since there are a lot of different type of logs (kernel log, application logs, etc) and logs come in many different formats (binary, json, strings) - it’s no easy task to collect them centrally and look through them whenever neccessarly.

I’ve looked at grafana and tried the agent briefly, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought (and it might be a too big tool for my needs). So I thought to ask the linuxlemmy community to get some inspiration.

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    1 year ago

    My logs were actually filling up my disk! I edited journald conf and limited them to 500mb . disk is only 10gb for reference

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      1 year ago

      What services were you running and for how long? I ask because I rent a very cheap VPS with 10G disk and I want to prepare for this