Getting Victoria Logs running on FreeBSD

This post is only about getting Victoria Logs running on FreeBSD. A future post will go over configuration and getting logs in. I’m hoping Victoria Logs can fill the role which ElasticSearch once tried to fill, but failed; it was too finicky and fragile for my use. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 mkjail-0.0.8 Jail creation I’m going to run this in a jail, like most things. You don’t have to. I’m using sysutils/mkjail for this. [19:08 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo mkjail create -a amd64 -v 15.0-RELEASE -j logs Creating data02/jails/logs... Extracting base into /jails/logs... Extracting lib32 into /jails/logs... Copying in default flavor... Updating logs jail... src component not installed, skipped Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 15.0-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files will be removed as part of…