Collecting process accounting logs on Linux with syslog-ng
Collecting process accounting logs on Linux with syslog-ng
Process accounting logs are collected into binary log files on Linux. You can turn them into human readable format locally, using various tools. You can also use syslog-ng to read those files.
Lean how syslog-ng can parse those binary logs, create name-value pairs from them and store the results from my latest blog: https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/collecting-process-accounting-logs-on-linux-with-syslog-ng