OohlalogSyslog

A syslog/log file tail monitor for forwarding to the oohlalog system.

Installation

Install the oohlalog_syslog scripts with:

	gem install 'oohlalog_syslog'

Usage

To start monitoring your log files you must first configure which files you would like to monitor.

Create a configuration file in /etc/oohlalog/config.yml

“yslog: path: /var/log/system.log api_key: YOUR_API_KEY

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Multiple log files can be listed here by name (in the example above we are naming this log syslog). This gives us the ability to tie logging into other services like perhaps your mysql logs, mongo logs, whatever log file you want to monitor really.

To kick off the monitor one can simply test by typing oohlalog in the shell. This will startup the monitor script and start forwarding log messages to oohlalog. It will also confirm your config is setup correctly.

To startup a daemon monitor for your logs simply run the oohlalogd command. This will also provide you a list of command options that can be used in daemon mode.

We have more updates and detail guide options coming. Please feel free to open any issues and suggest improvements.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request