A Way to Keep Logs Safe on Disposable Servers
Automatic replacement of failed cloud configuration items is a life-saver. Having items recover themselves with no ops team intervention can be a life-saver too, and not to mention a sleep-saver. Relieved from the responsibility of having to restore service, the only outstanding task is often to explain what happened.
What if the thing that failed was an EC2 application server running RedHat and the logs were on the server’s now-replaced volumes though? The contents of /var/log are gone, and while we might be capturing them in a log aggregator like Splunk or a syslog system of some sort, those aren’t always simple to compile into a report or send to an application vendor for a post mortem. … [Keep reading] “A Way to Keep Logs Safe on Disposable Servers”