RSYSLOG for Logging HAProxy
RSYSLOG is the rocket-fast system for log processing. It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. While it started as a regular syslogd, rsyslog has evolved into a kind of swiss army knife of logging, being able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations. RSYSLOG can deliver over one million messages per second to local destinations when limited processing is applied (based on v7, December 2013). Even with remote destinations and more elaborate processing the performance is usually considered "stunning". No need to install rsyslog on Linux OS because the default linux ubuntu is already installed rsyslog. The configuration file is in /etc/rsyslog.conf Just run the rsyslog configuration for the haproxy log. Then edit the rsyslog.conf file nano /etc/rsyslog.conf remove the # character as shown above. The option is useful to open port 514 with udp...