Palo Alto Data Connector failing on storage

Hi All, Has anyone else deployed a Log Collector for Palo Alto only to find that it runs out of storage - it's almost like the "Log Collector" itself is not trimming the logs after being parsed thru...

Roger_Fleming
Oct 28, 2020
David Caddick

There are two places that you define this depending on the Operating system

In the rsyslog.conf file you will see a line like this

*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog

*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/messages

Or in the /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog

*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/messages

The fix is to put a # in front of the line and restart the rsyslog server

Systemctl restart rsyslog

The local file should stop growing

tail -f /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages