blackbox

forward files on to syslog

about

Applications often provide only a limited ability to log to syslog and often don't log in a consistent format. I also think that syslog is an operational concern and the application should not know about where it is logging. Blackbox is an experiment to decouple syslogging from an application without messing about with syslog configuration (which is tricky on BOSH VMs).

Blackbox will tail specified files and forward any new lines to a syslog server.

usage

blackbox -config config.yml

The configuration file schema is as follows:

hostname: this-host

destination:
  transport: udp
  address: logs.example.com:1234

sources:
  - path: hello.txt
    tag: hello

Each file can be sent with a different tag. Currently the priority and facility are hardcoded to INFO and user. However, allowing customisation of these per source would not be difficult.

installation

go get -u github.com/concourse/blackbox/cmd/blackbox