SCRIBE_CAT(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SCRIBE_CAT(1)NAMEscribe_cat.pl - Reads log messages from standard input and sends to a
scribe instance
SYNOPSISscribe_cat.pl --host=HOST --port=PORT --level=LEVEL --category=CATEGORY
# Example Apache CustomLog entry
CustomLog "|scribe_cat.pl --category=www" "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
DESCRIPTION
A simple script that uses the functionality of Log::Dispatch::Scribe to
read from standard input and send to a scribe instance. Offers
categorisation by regular expression match on the log message.
Apache Logging
This script is suitable for use with Apache httpd for piped logging per
the CustomLog example shown above.
Note that special characters in the command given in the Apache
configuration file need to be escaped; for example, this command line:
/usr/local/bin/scribe_cat.pl --category-re 'local$1= /\?p=([^ ]+)'
would be specified in the configuration file as:
CustomLog "|/usr/local/bin/scribe_cat.pl --category-re \'local$1= /\\\\?p=([^ ]+)\'" combined
OPTIONS--host, --port
Host and port of Scribe server. Defaults to localhost, port 1463.
--category=CATEGORY
Default Scribe logging category, used where there is no
--category-re or no match on any given category-re.
--category-re CATEGORY=REGEXP [ --category-re CATEGORY=REGEXP ...]
Specify a mapping from regular expression match on each log message
to category name. --category-re may be specified more than once to
specify a set of mappings. Each mapping is of the form
CATEGORY=REGEXP, where CATEGORY is the category name and may
include substitutions from the matching expression, using $1, $2
etc. REGEXP is any Perl regexp, using () for grouping to create the
$1, $2 references.
The regular expressions are tried in the order that they are
specified on the command line, and the first match is used.
Example:
--category-re 'foo$1=www\.([^ ]+)' --category-re bar=BAR --category-re baz='(?i:BAZ)'
Log Message | Category | Notes
--------------------------------------------------
www.acme.com xyz | fooacme.com | Back-subst of acme.com
my new BAR baz | bar | Matches BAR before BAZ
bar my new baz | baz | Case insensitive match on bar
--retry-plan-a=MODE, --retry-plan-b=MODE, --retry-buffer-size=SIZE,
--retry-count=COUNT, --retry-delay=DELAY
See Log::Dispatch::Scribe for full description of these options.
--debug, --debug=FILE
Enable debugging to standard error or to file.
SEE ALSO
Log::Dispatch::Scribe, File::Tail::Scribe
Apache httpd piped log documentation,
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#piped>
AUTHOR
Jon Schutz, "<jon at jschutz.net>" <http://notes.jschutz.net>
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to
"bug-log-logdispatch-scribe at rt.cpan.org", or through the web
interface at
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Log-Dispatch-Scribe>.
I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of
progress on your bug as I make changes.
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc scribe_cat.pl
You can also look for information at:
· RT: CPAN's request tracker
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Log-Dispatch-Scribe>
· AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
<http://annocpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch-Scribe>
· CPAN Ratings
<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Log-Dispatch-Scribe>
· Search CPAN
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch-Scribe/>
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2009 Jon Schutz, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
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