logcabin 1.0.10

Logging framework for receiving and processing events from a diverse range of sources and formats, and relaying onto multiple destinations.

logcabin is a program for aggregating and processing events from a diverse range of sources and formats, and outputting to the file system, database or a search engine.

Quickstart

Install:

$ pip install logcabin

Configure:

$ wget https://raw.github.com/artirix/logcabin/master/config/simple.py -O config.py

Run:

$ logcabin

Send some messages:

$ echo '{"message": "test log event"}' | nc -u localhost 6000
$ cat output.log

Dependencies

pip will install gevent, which needs libevent-dev (or equivalent package) to build:

$ apt-get install libevent-dev

All other dependencies are optional, and only required if you use that module.

zeromq

Install:

$ apt-get install libzmq1-dev (or equivalent)
$ pip install -U pyzmq
(>= 2.2.0.1)

mongodb

Install:

$ pip install pymongo

Docs

See: http://logcabin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please:

• Fork the project on Github

• Make your feature addition or bug fix, write tests, commit.

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Changelog

1.0.10

• Fix for breaking change in elasticsearch 1.0. fixes #4.

1.0.9

• elasticsearch output: handle bad requests better. fixes #3.

1.0.8

• Add examples to docs.

1.0.7

• Add some debugging logging

1.0.6

• Switch to milliseconds - more ISO8601 standard

1.0.5

• Save precious bytes on json output

1.0.4

• Improve error messages on unparseable Json

• Add some debug logging to Graphite

1.0.3

• add copy action in Mutate object

1.0.2

• Fix bug in when setting File statedir

1.0.1

• Add resume to input File tailing

1.0

• Add timestamp rolling to Output File

• Add url unescape filter

• Add event setter and tidy docs

0.1b12

• graphite output should reconnect on socket errors

0.1b11

• Stats filter: zero=True/False option to generate zero data points

0.1b10

• Add Python stage for custom python code

0.1b9

• Yield in input stages for better behaviour

• Improve exception catching

0.1b8

• Robustness and general bug fixes

0.1b7

• Add support to stats for wildcarding and nested fields

0.1b6

• Add index/type formatting for elasticsearch

0.1b5

• Bug fix for flow stopping at If/Switch

• Add rename and unset to Mutate

0.1b4

• Documentation improvements

0.1b3

• Add file input and zeromq output.

0.1b2

• Initial release