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title: "Best practices and examples"
url: "https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/"
description: "Recommendations for high message load, log rotation, name resolution, chroot environments, and load balancing between multiple destinations."
last_modified: "2026-09-23T14:21:26+02:00"
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> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/llms.txt).

# Best practices and examples

Recommendations for high message load, log rotation, name resolution, chroot environments, and load balancing between multiple destinations.

This chapter discusses some special examples and recommendations.

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[General recommendations](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/example-general/index.md)

[Handling large message load](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/handling-large-load/index.md)

[Using name resolution in syslog-ng](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/examples-dns/index.md)

[Collecting logs from chroot](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/example-chroot/index.md)

[Configuring log rotation](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/example-logrotate/index.md)

[Load balancing logs between multiple destinations](https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/4.28/chapter-examples/load-bal-multi-dest/index.md)

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