Hi Nick, Thanks for your help.
I think for normal cases .. If the most recent logs don't have timestamp (they only have timestamp after it got rotated). logfile logifile.2014.05.28 logifile.2014.05.27 Then I can just tell the monitoring tool to monitor logfile ..(without the timestamp) Now the most recent logs file also have timestamp logfile.2014.05.29 logifile.2014.05.28 logifile.2014.05.27 If I am telling the monitoring tool to monitor most recent log file logfile .2014.05.29 The next day the most recent one would be logfile.2014.05.30 I cannot just feed a file a name to the monitoring Can you point me out some common practices what we can do? (think we are going to use Nagios) Either On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Folino, Nick E CTR USARMY HRC (US) < nick.e.folino....@mail.mil> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > Is this what you need? > > CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile.%Y.%m.%d 86400" common > > Nick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: eric tse [mailto:hfe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:45 AM > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: [users@httpd] Monitoring timestamp rotation files > > Hi, > > I am using apache and configured logs with timestamp. > I am facing potential problem in adding these files through add monitor > command. > I don't know which is effective way I can use to add log files. same time > it should not read old files. > > > > CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 86400" common > > > for example > error_log.1388707200 (this is not even a time dadte, this is system time) > > > I read some article using a solution blunk > http://answers.splunk.com/answers/23671/monitoring-timestamp-rotation-log-files > > > that we can just add the directory where our logs are stored .. > > I think I am going to use Negios for monitoring. > > I am not sure if someone can point me out the directions? (Open source > solution would be preferable) > > Many thanks, > > Thanks and regards, > Eric > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > >