Adding syslog-ng to a host to extract Nginx logs

This replaces and combines two earlier posts: Replacing syslogd with syslog-ng (sysutils/syslog-ng) on FreeBSD. Getting Nginx logs into Victoria-Logs I just got Victoria Logs running. Now I want to get logs into it. For starters, I want to get the logs on the host itself into Victoria Logs. I figure this is a log-risk experiment. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 I’m installing syslog-ng on a host (x8dtu) The nginx logs reside in a jail (nginx01) on that host I will be using TLS between syslog-ng and victoria-logs – you will notice this is all on the same host, and some of you might say: you don’t need TLS for that. However, this is a proof-of-concept for remote hosts. They will be passing traffic through my VPN and my network. Or perhaps over the Internet. Things change. Let’s start with TLS. I know that various tools can be used for testing logs to VictoriaLogs. I should investigate that. Filebeat (now known as beats) has been mentioned. The…