I have a lot of user event data being sent to an apache web server and written to web logs. Unfortunately I don't control this flow, but do I have access to the server the logs are being written to.
I need a way to access these events as soon as they have been written to the log file and send this over to Kafka. I'm aware I can write a Kafka Producer, but I was hoping there might be something out of the box I could use that could monitor a log file and send the contents to Kafka. I saw from KAFKA-130 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-130> that in version 0.7 onwards there is something that can monitor STDIN, not sure if I could use this for web log files? Thanks, James
