I was wondering if remote syslog could be added to ST or if this request has already been submitted. I would need this for two reasons: The first is for SMB (Small/Medium Businesses). A lot of SMB have a remote Syslog server so they can correlate events in a central platform (elastic search engine …

Yes, I asked about this on one of the Developer Calls. I would love to pipe the output of the log through syslog on the v2 hub to one of my linux servers so that I can replay things at a later time.

If ST allowed syslog logging, I’d point it at papertrailapp.com in a heartbeat. A syslog stream could be directed there with nothing to set up beyond signing up. 100mb/month of logs is free which I think would cover a lot of users’ needs, and $7/mo for a GB, so it’s reasonable for a personal user. …

Agreed. This feature is very much needed to allow SmartThings to get in to the business market.

Smartthings logs events for 7 days already, this may help you find events to aid in debugging outside live logging. Outside of this, there is no reason you can’t write a smartapp to export events to some other system. I know there are a couple smartapps already that export events to Xivley. …

[image] sidjohn1: Smarthihngs logs events for 7 days… Thanks for the suggestion. Does Xivley have the ability to export or send the logs to a local device on my LAN? That’s really what I’m after…to be able to use a tool like ELK (elastic search, log stash, kabana) locally.

The Xivley API allows for reading and writing, so yes that would be possible.

I’ll contact Smartthings in the morning, but that’s pretty inefficient compared to syslog. One benefit is NOT sharing all of my home data in a cloud solution. Even having everything stored in a Smartthings cloud makes me a little uneasy (net/platform security is my field, so I’m naturally paranoid a…

Your data is still in the cloud with hub v2 and support will probably point you to initialstate for reporting tools. If you really want syslog support, writing a smartapp to export events to it is your best/ if not only shot.

So…uhm…what’s the point of asking for feature enhancements then??? I’d rather log the data before it leaves the hub if possible; and there’s where the whole “feature request” comes into play. Adding another cloud provider means that one more company owns my data, could charge for access to my data …

Any more work on sylog (remote logging)? I just got smart things v2 hub and would like to have some more options than a remote API.

Feature Request: Remote Syslog?

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TheFuzz4 (Jason Hamilton) February 14, 2016, 5:36am 14

I have completed a splunk event logger here

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