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- In this video,

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I'd like to give you an
overview of Linux logging.

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So, there is syslog.

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Syslog is where it all started.

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It's the legacy service
that takes care of logging.

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It has been around forever.

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Syslog on modern Linux is
implemented through rsyslogd,

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and rsyslogd still exists
on most distributions.

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There's also systemd-journald,

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and systemd-journald is the
system-integrated log service.

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The thing is that systemd
is taken care of everything.

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And as it is taken care of everything,

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it's very easy for systemd

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to catch messages that are generated

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by the different components as well.

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And these messages are
forwarded to systemd-journald.

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So systemd-journald has become

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the default logging solution.

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On some distributions, systemd-journald

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is the only logging service
that is still offered,

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and some distributions are using rsyslogd

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for its advanced features

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and systemd-journald side-by-side.