Gitlab + Logstalgia

logstalgia-client

# The client must have an x11 window running (for the graphics)

    ssh foo@192.0.2.0 tail -f /home/foo/logstalgia.log | logstalgia --sync
    
Verify that the logstalgia-client can ssh to the logstalgia-server without passwords by setting up ssh key access

logstalgia-server

# On the logstalia server, make sure the logstalgia-client can access with ssh keys


Verify that there is a file in ~/logstalgia.log

Theoretically you could link the logstalgia-client directly to the web-server, however this is less secure since the client could be compromised. By using a logstalgia server, if the client is compromised an attacker could only recover some logs. 

It also gives us the advantage of sending multiple webservers to one logstalia log file. 

web-server

# On the web server, tail the logs like so:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    tail -f /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log -f /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log -f /var/log/nginx/access.log -f /var/log/nginx/error.log | ssh  foo@192.0.2.0 " cat >> logstalgia.log"


Also setup ssh key access from gitlab-server to logstalgia log server

    ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub foo@logstalgia-server