An important part of any project, logging can be used as a debugging tool during development, and a troubleshooting tool once a system has been deployed in a production environment. Because most ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

Collecting too much log data overwhelms systems and staff. Centralized event log management lets you filter for the most significant security data. More companies are using their security logs to ...

How to use syslog-ng to collect logs from remote Linux machines Your email has been sent Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up a centralized Linux log server using syslog-ng. Let’s ...

Before we dive into setting up any of this we need to do a little prep work. If you are going to be looking at these logs in a web browser then it might be good if the time stamps you are seeing ...