Hi Iain, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014 18:06:33 UTC+2 schrieb Iain Keddie: > > Please could you point me in the right direction for a simple way to get > text from an arbitrary file, into Graylog2? >
In general you can set-up a Raw UDP or Raw TCP Input on your Graylog2 server and send your logs into it using netcat (`nc`) or a similar program. I have a 40+ text logfiles from a number of web application servers (tomcat > and weblogic), and I'd like to get the output sent to graylog. > Those Java web applications are probably using a logging framework like Log4j, Logback, or good old java.util.logging, so I would suggest getting one of the existing GELF appenders from http://www.graylog2.org/resources/gelf/libraries and let them directly log into your Graylog2 with a GELF Input. I can see that the GELF format seems a sensible transport format. Is there > standard a tool which can effectively "tail" a file and send the data to > graylog? > Apart from the already mentioned logstash (with GELF output <http://logstash.net/docs/1.4.2/outputs/gelf>) you could take a look at NXLOG <http://nxlog-ce.sourceforge.net/> which also provides a native GELF output. Cheers, Jochen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "graylog2" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
