5 engineers on Hacker News describe using rsyslog first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I know it still exists and use it heavily on any system I'm in charge of, but there's some regret at having a dual system with journalctl”
endorse · production · touisteur · 2026-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the pieces that we control and can use RELP things work great. ... If every client could use rsyslog+relp ... the whole system would work a lot better.”
endorse · production · justinsaccount · 2016-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The first thing I do on systemd Linux systems is install rsyslogd and runit.”
neutral · production · petre · 2017-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run syslog and logrotate inside the container (using a volume) and it works fairly well for us.”
neutral · production · sandGorgon · 2015-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Logging is centralized by sending log messages to rsyslog on each container”
neutral · production · tomkinstinch · 2014-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?