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.

General recommendations

Handling large message load

Using name resolution in syslog-ng

Collecting logs from chroot

Configuring log rotation

Load balancing logs between multiple destinations

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