svlog processing

From: Joe M <joe9mail_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:17:12 -0500

Hello,

I have a few processes logged by svlogd, as shown below.

pstree output

runit─┬─chronyd
      ├─dhcpcd
      ├─mdadm
      .
      .
      ├─runsvdir─┬─5*[runsv───agetty]
      │ ├─runsv─┬─atd
      │ │ └─svlogd
      │ ├─runsv─┬─crond
      │ │ └─svlogd
      │ ├─runsv─┬─login───xinit─┬─X───{X}
      │ │ │ └─xmonad-x86_64-l─┬─remind
      │ │ │ ├─7*[st───tmux]
      │ │ │ ├─xautolock
      │ │ │ ├─xmobar
      │ │ │ └─xmobar───ledmon
      │ │ └─svlogd
      │ ├─runsv─┬─acpid
      │ │ └─svlogd
      │ ├─runsv─┬─klogd
      │ │ └─svlogd
      │ └─runsv─┬─svlogd
      │ └─syslogd


I find svlogd log files hard to read as the lines have a UTC timestamp(-tt)
and the filenames with _at_....s are hard to understand. I read that
svlog files are meant to be processed by a post-processor.

I use logrotate for other log files.

Just wanted to check if anyone could please share some insight on how
they manage/post-process svlogd generated logs.

In the runit documentation, I saw multilog and svlogd both being
used. When do you use multilog over svlogd?

Thanks
Joe

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