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Logging for Unifi (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 year ago by Goombalover3000 to c/selfhosted
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Looking to setup a syslog service for my home lab, more to better troubleshoot issues with random hardline disconnects from the switches. I was told that syslog stack would be the best thing especially for long term use. My question is, that the best option or would y'all suggestion something else? I have been looking at greylog/elk/Loki, but can't decide nor does anyone in my circle use anything to help Collect syslogs 🙄

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Splunk. The search tool is great, but has a bit of a learning curve to get it set up right. Watch some vids and you’ll be fine.

I only point a few devices at it and have been able to slide by with the free version for awhile now.

[–] Goombalover3000 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does it work with Unifi?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If unifi supports syslog, then yes (I think it does but I don’t have it set up personally)

[–] InverseParallax 0 points 1 year ago

My udm is basically running either debian or Ubuntu with all the major apt packages so everything should work, though I don't think most of the logs go through syslog, many go into their mongodb database I think.

[–] solidgrue 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, you could set up any syslog receiver stack like Splunk (as the other OP suggested) or an ELK Stack or even just syslog-ng or rsyslog to disk. Anything that can ingest syslog format will handle Unifi logs.

Decide how you want to receive, store and parse your logstream data. Once you have a syslog receiver set up, set Unifi (System > Site > Enable Remote Logging) for the Syslog server remote address:port and start shipping logs.

Whatever you do with those logs is out of scope for this discussion, but your logger should at least ingest them and spool them.