logger -> Syslog vs stdout

[Michael Klimenko]

Hello Dan,

In order to monitor logs from cgr-engine, 

I am trying setting as follows :

      "logger":"*syslog",                                                                             // controls the destination of logs <*syslog|*stdout>
      "log_level": 7,                                                                                 // control the level of messages logged (0-emerg to 7-debug)

In my /var/log/syslog, I can only see partial warnings/errors, not exactly as it appears in stdout.

Is there a difference between *stdout and *syslog ? 

How do I achieve log output to syslog, similar to the one,  that appears when running cgr-engine in the console (stdout) ?

 

Thanks,

Michael

[DanB]

Hey Michael,

The difference between them would be that in case of syslog, it will be
syslog deciding how much goes into logs (normally if message is too big
it will be cut, if message is considered to be duplicated it will be
discarded and so on).

In case of stdout, we print all, so no formatting nor altering is done.
If you want to go for stdout you should be fine if you use the logging
facility of systemd, you can end up with them managing the stdout.

DanB

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[Michael Klimenko]

Dan,

Trying to set logger to *stdout in the config... 

But, cannot find the location where the log is written :(

has that something to do with journalctl -u cgrates.service ?

Thanks,

Michael

[DanB]

Michael,

I guess so, I am not sure where your stdout goes but normally it should
depend on the init script.

DanB

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