I need to find a program to scrape log files and send them to a syslog server.
Similar to what logger will do, but I would like to find something that can deal
somewhat sanely with multi-line (java) logfiles, trying to combine the
multi-line dumps into one log entry. Since this can create very long log
messages, it would need to have some way of dealing with them (splitting into
multiple smaller messages ideally)
I also have the problem that some of the programs create logfiles that have
timestamps in the filename, so I need to tell the program to scrape all logs it
finds that match a pattern (and have it find new logs that match that pattern
over time)
I worked on writing a perl program to do this, but after doing a bunch of work
on it I had it go into a cpu burning loop and so now management wants an 'off
the shelf' solution instead of something that I've written :-/
Any suggestions?
logger doesn't handle multi-line messages or wildcarded filenames
rsyslog doesn't handle wildcarded filenames or splitting long messages (it does
handle combining the lines, but it will then truncate them to the max log size)
Unfortunantly the engineering team doesn't want to take the 'risk' of
reconfiguring the Java logging to send directly to a syslog server so just
reconfiguring log4j and equivalent are not an option.
David Lang
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