aisamu / kinesis-tail

Tool which provides tail for Kinesis

Home Page:https://github.com/Versent/kinesis-tail

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Tool which provides tail for Kinesis, it allows you to use one of two processors for the data returned, firstly one which decompresses and parses CloudWatch Logs data, and secondly one which just returns the raw data.

background

This cloudwatch logs reader works with a pattern used at Versent for log distribution and storage.

For more information on the setup for cwlogs sub command to function it assumes the logs are gzipped batches of log JSON records in Kinesis see Real-time Processing of Log Data with Subscriptions

installation

You can download kinesis-tail from Releases or install it using npm.

usage

usage: kinesis-tail [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]

Flags:
      --help           Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
  -t, --trace          Enable trace mode.
  -r, --region=REGION  Configure the aws region.
      --version        Show application version.

Commands:
  help [<command>...]
    Show help.


  cwlogs [<flags>] <stream>
    Process cloudwatch logs data from kinesis.

    --include=INCLUDE ...  Include anything in log group names which match the supplied string.
    --exclude=EXCLUDE ...  Exclude anything in log group names which match the supplied string.

  raw [<flags>] <stream>
    Process raw data from kinesis.

    --timeout=3600000  How long to capture raw data for before exiting in ms.
    --count=0          How many records to capture raw data for before exiting.


example

List the kinesis streams in your account.

aws kinesis list-streams

To tail one of these streams and exit once you have captured 20 records.

kinesis-tail raw dev-1-stream --count 20

To tail one of these streams and exit after 30 seconds, and write the data to a file.

kinesis-tail raw dev-1-stream --timeout 30000 | tee data.log

license

This code is released under MIT License.

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Tool which provides tail for Kinesis

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