Logagg

This is a simple log aggregator service. The service can be ran by anyone to receive streamed logs from multiple sources (mainly VMs). tailstream is the tool which used in our VMs.

Configuration

Configuration is passed via --cfg argument which accepts a path to a yaml file.

The yaml file has the following structure.

listen: <listen address>
output:
  - kind: <output type i.e. file>
    config: < i.e. /where/to/keep/thelogs/ for a *file* kind>
  - kind: ...
    config: ...

Types of received message

• text for not compressed message
• binary for gzip compressed message

Url form

send messages to the following url with this form

ws://<listen-address>/logs/<name>

• listen-address is the one written into the <config>.yaml.
• name is the name of the log file i.e. text file.

Usage

logagg --cfg /path/to/<config>.yaml