On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:00 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to find a program to scrape log files and send them to a syslog > server. > > Similar to what logger will do, but I would like to find something that > can deal somewhat sanely with multi-line (java) logfiles, trying to combine > the multi-line dumps into one log entry. Since this can create very long > log messages, it would need to have some way of dealing with them > (splitting into multiple smaller messages ideally) > > I also have the problem that some of the programs create logfiles that > have timestamps in the filename, so I need to tell the program to scrape > all logs it finds that match a pattern (and have it find new logs that > match that pattern over time) > > I worked on writing a perl program to do this, but after doing a bunch of > work on it I had it go into a cpu burning loop and so now management wants > an 'off the shelf' solution instead of something that I've written :-/ > > Any suggestions? > > logger doesn't handle multi-line messages or wildcarded filenames > > rsyslog doesn't handle wildcarded filenames or splitting long messages (it > does handle combining the lines, but it will then truncate them to the max > log size) > > Unfortunantly the engineering team doesn't want to take the 'risk' of > reconfiguring the Java logging to send directly to a syslog server so just > reconfiguring log4j and equivalent are not an option. > > David Lang > ______________________________**_________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/tech<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
Hello David, I haven't gotten a chance to play with it myself yet, but my Network Admin says "Logstash" should be able to meet many of those requirements. http://logstash.net/ Best of luck! -- ##### "The compassionate have no enemies, the wise have no worries." ##### - Jing-si Aphorism ##### http://kso.cc
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