inthecloud247 / loges

Logging/Metrics Daemon: Logstash Formatted write to Elasticsearch with Fluentd, Kafka, Monit inputs and Graphite, Elasticsearch outputs

Logging Utility & Daemon

Read log data from Inputs [Tail Files, Kafka, Stdin], perform transforms [Combine lines(multi-line-errors)] and output to [ElasticSearch, Stdout] Recognize lines with metrics and send to Monitoring [Graphite, Librato, ..]

Why?

We had 2 needs: 1) to send data to Elasticsearch for viewing in http://kibana.org/ and 2) if possible, unify the Logging/Metrics systems data-collection-forwarding.

There are probably better tools out there for this but putting together the specific combination of: (LogStash format in Elasticsearch, Tail files, Read Kafka, Metrics read from log files) didn't happen, see alternates below.

Features

• Inputs
  • Stdin
  • Kafka
  • Tail Logs (multiple files)
  • Monit (metrics vi http)
  • Http (custom)
• Transforms:
  • Logstash http://logstash.net/
  • Colorizor for console
  • Concat into single line when needed (say error stack trace)
  • custom plugins
  • Seperate Metrics Log Lines from regular log lines
• Log Line Outputs
  • Stdout (optional colorized)
  • Elasticsearch
• Metric Outputs
  • Graphite

Alternates

• Go https://github.com/onemorecloud/dendrite
• Go https://github.com/ryandotsmith/l2met
• Go http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka/
• Ruby, http://fluentd.org/
• JVM, http://logstash.org
• Go https://github.com/cloudfoundry/loggregator

Usage

loges --source=monit,tail --metrics=graphite \
   /path/to/my/file \
   /path/to/another

Extending

Create Custom Formatter (see /example/main.go)::

// custom formatter
func CustomFormatter(every uint64) loges.LineFormatter {
	return func(e *loges.LineEvent) *loges.Event {
		// custom formatting
		return nil
	}
}