NXLog Platform: Bacula Integration

In this tutorial, Pedro Oliveira, Linux Professional Services Engineer at NXLog, demonstrates how to collect, parse, and analyze Bacula backup logs using the NXLog Platform. Learn how to filter critical errors, extract job details, and forward structured logs to your SIEM or monitoring system.

What You'll Learn:

Bacula logs. Director logs (bacula.log), audit logs (audit.log), and storage daemon (SD) logs
Multi-line log parsing. How to handle Bacula’s complex multi-line log format with NXLog Agent
Targeted log filtering. Isolate fatal errors, job IDs, and backup metrics while dropping irrelevant data
JSON conversion. Transform raw logs into structured JSON for better analysis and integrations.

Have questions? Reach out to the NXLog technical support team — we're happy to help!

Useful links:

NXLog Documentation: docs.nxlog.co/platform/current/landing.html
Bacula Docs: www.bacula.org/documentation/

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