test

command module
v3.0.0-rc9+incompatible Latest Latest
Warning

This package is not in the latest version of its module.

Go to latest
Published: Mar 1, 2018 License: Apache-2.0 Imports: 11 Imported by: 0

README

mtail

mtail - extract whitebox monitoring data from application logs for collection into a timeseries database

GoDoc Travis Build Status CircleCI Build Status Coverage Status

mtail is a tool for extracting metrics from application logs to be exported into a timeseries database or timeseries calculator for alerting and dashboarding.

It aims to fill a niche between applications that do not export their own internal state, and existing monitoring systems, without patching those applications or rewriting the same framework for custom extraction glue code.

The extraction is controlled by mtail programs which define patterns and actions:

# simple line counter
counter line_count
/$/ {
  line_count++
}

Metrics are exported for scraping by a collector as JSON or Prometheus format over HTTP, or can be periodically sent to a collectd, StatsD, or Graphite collector socket.

Read the programming guide if you want to learn how to write mtail programs.

Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mtail-users

Installation

mtail uses a Makefile. To build mtail, type make at the commandline. See the Build instructions for more details.

Deployment

mtail works best when it paired with a timeseries-based calculator and alerting tool, like Prometheus.

So what you do is you take the metrics from the log files and you bring them down to the monitoring system?

It deals with the instrumentation so the engineers don't have to! It has the extraction skills! It is good at dealing with log files!!

Documentation

The Go Gopher

There is no documentation for this package.

Directories

Path Synopsis
Package exporter provides the interface for getting metrics out of mtail, into your monitoring system of choice.
Package exporter provides the interface for getting metrics out of mtail, into your monitoring system of choice.
Package metrics provides storage for metrics being recorded by mtail programs.
Package metrics provides storage for metrics being recorded by mtail programs.
Package tailer provides a class that is responsible for tailing log files and extracting new log lines to be passed into the virtual machines.
Package tailer provides a class that is responsible for tailing log files and extracting new log lines to be passed into the virtual machines.
Package vm provides a compiler and virtual machine environment for executing mtail programs.
Package vm provides a compiler and virtual machine environment for executing mtail programs.
Package watcher provides a way of watching for filesystem events and notifying observers when they occur.
Package watcher provides a way of watching for filesystem events and notifying observers when they occur.

Jump to

Keyboard shortcuts

? : This menu
/ : Search site
f or F : Jump to
y or Y : Canonical URL