LOGSTER(1)

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).