Papertrail now officially supports automated setup of the remote_syslog2 logging daemon with Chef, Puppet, and Salt:
All three support Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS/RHEL, and Debian 9. (A previous version of this post mentioned an upstream issue with Puppet and Debian 9 that has now been resolved.)
The Chef cookbook supports 12.21.x and 13.x, and the Puppet module has been tested with 4.x and 5.x.
Get set up easily by providing:
- the account’s log destination information
- a list of files to monitor
- any desired config options for typical remote_syslog2 operation
If your config strategy of choice is cookbooks, modules, or formulas, try these out. Tell us if you run into any speed bumps.