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+## **[Vector and Honeycomb - Logging on a Budget](/post/vector.html)**
+> _March 15, 2021_
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+> Powerful logging without powerful hardware
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+# High Spec Logging on Low Spec Hardware
+
+Being a server admin with a ramen noodle budget my servers aren't super fancy
+however, I still need logging to make sure I know what's going on to fix things.
+This means that if I want logging I have to use things that are as minimal as possible.
+I've used journald logs for a while now and frankly I'm completely over reading 
+non-essential[1] logs via ssh, especially when there's huge dumps of data to sift through.
+
+So first here are the server specs I have to work with:
+
+* 2 Lightsail instances: 2 Cores w/ 4GB RAM (each)
+
+* 3 VPS's(IONOS): 1 core w/ 2GB RAM (each)
+
+Between these I've got dev databases, websites, and game servers.
+The game servers are the ones I want to look at today since those produce logs
+when I'm not looking(i.e. when other people are playing/using commands on the chatbot).
+
+## What I use and why
+
+In short: [vector](https://vector.dev/) and  [honeycomb](https://www.honeycomb.io/)
+
+I would normally  go for something self-hosted and FOSS with an aggregate like honeycomb
+but honestly I just needed something that worked and honeycomb is exactly that.
+It comes with a web UI which is nice because I don't always have access 
+to a terminal nor do I want to ssh into burning servers anyway.
+
+## Why Vector over other options
+
+* It's lightweight
+
+* Super easy to setup
+
+Vector is statically compiled so its a single binary(around 40 MEG). Configuration
+consists of a single config file for multiple sinks(in my case).
+
+* Ready to send to basically any data sink I want.
+
+No really look at how many sinks it supports: [ref](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/).
+I settled on honeycomb personally because its one less thing to host and because none of the logs I'm sending actually contain sensitive data so I'm not really worried about it.
+
+* It's easy to fan out data
+
+The ease of creating data sinks its trivial to take your data inputs and fan them
+out to basically anywhere to have lots of backups(not that I _really_ need it buy _heywhynot_).
+
+## Where I run it
+
+Vector lives right next to my chat-bot which people control to turn game servers
+on/off.
+I don't run vector on the websites I run are behind Nginx which hasn't failed me
+in a few months and the occasional restart seems to remedy all things.
+The Mysql database I have is literally for running tests so I'm basically staring
+at it when it does produce logs and they have entirely to do with the tests I'm running
+at the time.
+