Systemd Journal Logs

The systemd journal plugin by Netdata makes viewing, exploring and analyzing systemd journal logs simple and efficient.

It automatically discovers available journal sources, allows advanced filtering, offers interactive visual representations and supports exploring the logs of both individual servers and the logs on infrastructure wide journal centralization servers.

The plugin automatically detects the available journal sources, based on the journal files available in /var/log/journal (persistent logs) and /run/log/journal (volatile logs).

Visualization

You can start exploring systemd journal logs on the "Logs" tab of the Netdata UI.

Key features

• Works on both individual servers and journal centralization servers.
• Supports persistent and volatile journals.
• Supports system, user, namespaces and remote journals.
• Allows filtering on any journal field or field value, for any time-frame.
• Allows full text search (grep) on all journal fields, for any time-frame.
• Provides a histogram for log entries over time, with a break down per field-value, for any field and any time-frame.
• Works directly on journal files, without any other third-party components.
• Supports coloring log entries, the same way journalctl does.
• In PLAY mode provides the same experience as journalctl -f, showing new log entries immediately after they are received.

Setup

Prerequisites

• A Netdata Cloud account

Configuration

There is no configuration needed for this integration.