If you already have your centralized server logs or your logs are analyzed by a standard syslog system, you can also redirect your NGINX logs to do the same. This is useful when using external platforms such as Loggly and Papertrail, which integrate via syslog.
Logging to syslog
How to do it...
Firstly, we need to consider where we're pushing the logs to, syslog can be both local and network-based, so we'll cover both ways. For nearly all Linux distributions, the default syslog service is rsyslog which will be listening on the Unix socket located at /dev/log. Here's our NGINX configuration for local logging:
server {
listen 80;
server_name syslog.nginxcookbook.com;
access_log...
