Personally i just cat the file through netcat and into an input. You can 
use any syslog input if you pre-pend a syslog tag like <14> for cron.user, 
or make a plain text input.

Then just 

nc -u -w1 graylog2 514 <file

If I can, i configure the program to use a custom logger to log all sorts 
of nice info in a gelf format, for example apache, squid etc.. I then cat 
it into graylog2 with netcat (nc).

Brgds. Martin

On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:06:33 UTC+2, Iain Keddie wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please could you point me in the right direction for a simple way to get 
> text from an arbitrary file, into Graylog2?
>
> 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.  
>
> 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?
>
> I'd also like to send my graphite metrics to graylog as well as graphite, 
> to put some alerts in place, so any ideas in that area would be good.
>
> I can see some kind of logstash/greylog hybrid working, but I'd like to 
> stick to one platform if I can.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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