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Title: Logging
Status: In Progress

# Logging

The controlling of individual logs is a cumbersome job, even in an environment with only
few computer system. But it's even more worse in typical clouds with a large number of
nodes. Here the centrallized approach using `rsyslogd` helps. It allows you to aggregate
the logging output of all systems in one place. Here the monitoring and analysis gets
more simple.

Ubuntu uses `rsyslogd` as the default logging service. Since it is natively able to send 
logs to a remote location, you don't have to install anything extra to enable this feature, 
just modify the configuration file. In doing this, consider running your logging over 
a management network or using an encrypted VPN to avoid interception.