I’ve been working on software to make it faster to do local system reimaging. In order to make it easier to troubleshoot problems, I wanted to have local logs forwarded to another system.

As I am currently relying on cloud-init images, most of the system logs are already going to systemd’s journal, but how can I forward the journal to a remote system? Systemd already provides a tool, systemd-journal-upload. However, Fedora pushes this program into a separate package and also does not include it in their Cloud images.