Logger daemon for monitoring your macOS's location via CoreLocation updates.
Currently the only supported use case is logging to file, which is then tailed by telegraf (which batches metrics and sends them to an InfluxDB collector).
Clone, compile, and install:
git clone https://github.com/chbrown/macos-location.git
cd macos-location
make install
Run to allow location access (must be done interactively this one time):
location-logger
Type Ctrl-C to exit.
Prepare output location:
mkdir -p /usr/local/var/log
If that fails, fix permissions (and then run the mkdir command again):
sudo chown -R $USER:staff /usr/local/var/log/location.log
Install as user-level LaunchAgent and load for immediate use with launchctl:
cp github.chbrown.macos-location.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/github.chbrown.macos-location.plist
Edit /usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf and add the following tail plugin configuration:
[[inputs.tail]]
files = ["/usr/local/var/log/location.log"]
data_format = "influx"
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