NAME¶
logster - generate metrics from logfiles
SYNOPSIS¶
logster [
options]
parser logfile
DESCRIPTION¶
Tail a log file and filter each line to generate metrics that can be sent to
common monitoring packages.
OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- --logtail=LOGTAIL
- Specify location of logtail. Default /usr/sbin/logtail2
- -p METRIC_PREFIX, --metric-prefix=METRIC_PREFIX
- Add prefix to all published metrics. This is for people that may multiple
instances of same service on same host.
- -x METRIC_SUFFIX, --metric-suffix=METRIC_SUFFIX
- Add suffix to all published metrics. This is for people that may add
suffix at the end of their metrics.
- --parser-help
- Print usage and options for the selected parser
- --parser-options=PARSER_OPTIONS
- Options to pass to the logster parser such as "-o VALUE
--option2 VALUE". These are parser-specific and passed
directly to the parser.
- --gmetric-options=GMETRIC_OPTIONS
- Options to pass to gmetric such as "-d 180 -c
/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf" (default). These are passed directly
to gmetric.
- --graphite-host=GRAPHITE_HOST
- Hostname and port for Graphite collector, e.g.
graphite.example.com:2003
- -s STATE_DIR, --state-dir=STATE_DIR
- Where to store the logtail state file. Default location
/var/run
- -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
- Where to send metrics (can specify multiple times). Choices are
'graphite', 'ganglia', or 'stdout'.
- -d, --dry-run
- Parse the log file but send stats to standard output.
- -D, --debug
- Provide more verbose logging for debugging.
SEE ALSO¶
logtail(1)
AUTHOR¶
logster was written by Etsy, Inc.
This manual page was written by Andreas Rütten
<AndreasRuetten@gmx.de>, for the Debian project (and may be used by
others).