Re: Log files monitoring

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Both these ideas are interesting.

1) Monitor a log file using regex and standard action as described below

2) Customize monit log file output. Using the same approach as the  
apache project for configuring output. The log file format could be  
set using a global set-statement, ala: set logformat "%h %l %u %t \"%r 
\" %>s %b" and where applicable the format specifiers match those of  
apache.

I'm +1 for adding both in monit, and as a start to our TODO list.  
What do others say?

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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On 3. mai. 2005, at 09.40, Marco Ermini wrote:


> On 5/2/05, SorinS <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering whether there is any plan of implementing alerting  
> > for
> > certain events in log files. Something like:
> >
> > check file syslog with path /var/log/messages
> >    if match "^[A-Za-z][a-z][a-z] .[0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9] 
> > [0-9]
> > .* .* .*$"  then alert
> >
> > or if match regepx "..." then alert
> >
> > Monit could maintain the offset of each file (a la logtail) so it  
> > would
> > check only the last  entries.
> >
> > Sorry if this is a bad ideea, but it would be certainly usefull  
> > for me
> > right now.
> > Cheers,
> > Sorin
>
> I don't think this is a bad idea.
>
> I have a similar, but opposite :-) need. I need to produce a custom  
> logfile
> instead of the monit's default one. This is needed to integrate  
> Monit with
> other proprietary monitoring tools (specifically in my case, HP  
> OpenView)
> which are already in place in the server farm.
>
> It would be fine to be able to customize the logfile in a way  
> similar to the
> Apache's one.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
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