[Speakers] Re: Centralized Logging

[Bruce Smith]

> > > Today I setup centralized logging to a PostgreSQL database,  all the
> > > servers still log to /var/log as normal but they also send their messages
> > > to a central server.  Works with both old syslog and new syslog-ng boxes as
> > > long as the central server is syslog-ng  (I just used the same DB instance
> > > as my OpenNMS service).
> > > Anyone interested in this as a presentation?
> > I'd be interested. I have logs going to a centrallogging server, but
> > not to a database.
> 
> Okay,  I'll update my logging presentation and throw it on the schedule
> at some point.

Just curious, but what's the advantage(s) of logging to a database over
standard syslogd text files?  i.e. Why did you do this?

 - BS