As Hisham mentioned, what I've been working on is your option #2, and that can be done by using the Kafka APIs...
Currently, the easiest way to get this up and running quickly would probably be your option #1, using the kafka-console-producer that was added by the kind Kafka folks in KAFKA-130 :) (It's available in 0.7) -- Felix On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Hisham Mardam-Bey <his...@mate1inc.com>wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:20 AM, navneet sharma > <navneetsharma0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new to kafka. If i have an application which is generating logs and > i > > need to read and do some CEP on these logs. > > > > For CEP, we are planning to use Esper and for reading weblogs, we are > > examining Kafka. I have few questions: > > 1) What will be a producer in this case. Will it be an external > > entity(standalone program) which will do file I/o and send weblogs to > kafka > > broker? > > 2) Or will it be part of application itself, so that it can read logs in > > parallel with the logging utility? > > > > Any pointers will be helpful... > > > > Thanks, > > Navneet > > Navneet, > > We're currently doing that for our Tomcat servers. We've built an > access log valve (inspired by the one bundled with Tomcat that writes > log files to disk) that will format logs and push them into Kafka. We > then pull the logs and push them into HBase for analysis. FelixGV (on > this list) is implementing the code if you have questions for him. > > Hope this helps, > > hisham. > > -- > Hisham Mardam Bey > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > -=[ Codito Ergo Sum ]=- >
