Logging to syslog

Author David Anderson

By David Anderson 01 Feb 2014 Company news Announcements, UpdraftPlus,

If you are a server administrator and run a lot of websites, or if you just like the benefits of centralized logging, then this post may interest you.

Centralized logging with syslog integration

We’ve just added a new simple feature to our Reporting add-on (part of UpdraftPlus Premium). Just tick the log, and it will log all UpdraftPlus messages to syslog (or the Event Log on Windows). Log messages include the backup ID that the log message was associated with. This way, all your UpdraftPlus backup messages can be instantly logged to a single, central location – including all the data that’s in those logs like, for example, the SHA1 checksums of your backups. This should make administering your backups one little bit easier.

All Premium and Reporting customers will gain this feature with the next UD release.

Syslog log message — Logging to syslog for server administrators

About the author

David Anderson

David is the owner and founder of TeamUpdraft. David released the first version of UpdraftPlus back in 2011. Today, David is still our lead developer, ensuring quality runs through everything we do. David is passionate about quality coding, privacy and doing the right thing by our users and the WordPress community.