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Is there any alternative to syslogd?


I am looking into writing my application's log files to a syslog server in addition to plain old log files.

Are there any alternatives to syslogd? Currently we do not run any Linux servers, so it would be ideal if I could find a Windows solution so that I would not need to worry about an addition machine (even if that is only a VM).

What are good products for log visualization? I've come across logfaces, but would like to know other solutions.

Not sure if it matters, but we are using log4j.


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  • Are there any alternatives to syslogd? Currently we do not run any Linux servers, so it would be ideal if I could find a Windows solution so that I would not need to worry about an addition machine

    3CDaemon utilities include a syslog server (along with FTP/TFTP servers etc).It is for Windows and it is free.
    3CDaemon Utilities-Windows

    Not sure if it matters, but we are using log4j.

    I have tried SyslogAppender with 3CDaemon and it works. You can try it.