Select Your Language

Infrastructure and Management

Cloud Computing

Storage

Runtimes

Integration and Automation

  • Comments
  • Remote/central logging with RHEL 7

    Posted on

    I am interested in the method that Red Hat suggests for remote logging in RHEL 7. The desired end result is to have guaranteed log delivery to a remote host over an encrypted channel.

    As far as I can tell, journald doesn't natively support remote logging so the logs should be forwarded through rsyslog eg.
    journal -> rsyslog --remote connection-- > rsyslog

    With the addition of structured logging / json, is logging directly to a remote MongoDB instance a suggested alternative? eg.
    journal -> rsyslog -> json --remote connection--> mongodb

    Currently I use a combination of rsyslog with omrelp + stunnel to provide encrypted remote logging capabilities in RHEL 6 (because version of rsyslog/librelp shipped does not support native omrelp TLS). I believe the RHEL 7 version of rsyslog/librelp is still behind the version required for native omrelp + TLS too...

    So what do people suggest?

    What do you use for your logging solution?

    by

    points

    Responses

    Red Hat LinkedIn YouTube Facebook X, formerly Twitter

    Quick Links

    Help

    Site Info

    Related Sites

    © 2026 Red Hat