• Slack: #syslog on https://slack.cloudfoundry.org
• Tracker: CF Platform Logging Improvements
• CI: Syslog CI
• Syslog Release for Linux: Release

This is a BOSH release for forwarding logs from BOSH jobs on Windows VMs. It forwards logs in c:/var/vcap/sys/log/ (and any subdirectories, recursively) to a configured syslog server.

It doesn't have any final releases yet, so you'll need to create a dev release to use it.

From the top level of this repository:

1. copy the go blob into place
2. bosh create-release --force
3. bosh upload-release (you will need to be targeted and signed in to a Director)

If you wish to interact with this release to evaluate its behavior, here are some tips. We're assuming some familiarity with BOSH, but not necessarily with Windows.

There is a useful manifest at tests/manifests/tcp.yml. To use it, you will need to provide a deployment name, like so: bosh deploy -d windows-syslog -v deployment=windows-syslog tests/manifests/tcp.yml.

To ssh on to a windows VM, you will need the windows utility release. Our test manifest includes it. You can then use bosh -d windows-syslog ssh --opts=-T forwarder "echo example command" to run a single command non interactively on the forwarder job. Interactive SSH works more or less like you'd expect, except that you arrive in cmd.exe.

Our test manifest includes a storer from the linux syslog release, and the windows forwarder job is configured to send logs to it.