Re: What is the best approach to check log files using "journalctl"?

[Jorge Pereira]

Martin,

  I would like to work on it. but, I am not sure about your policies to receive external patches. at first, do you have some advice to init the contribution to monit (agent) project? I am always trying to improve/help others OSS projects github.com/jpereira/

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

No, at this point we don't have this on our list.

I see it could be useful to observe systemd logs, there seems to be also sd-journal.h API, which may allow programatic access to logs, so it can be maybe added in the future. 

On 17 Feb 2017, at 16:13, Jorge Pereira <address@hidden> wrote:

yes, But I wondering to know if exist plans to include the internal mechanism to do that avoiding external scripts.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

you can use "check program" with custom script, that will run journalctl and check content.

Best regards,
Martin

> On 17 Feb 2017, at 00:32, Jorge Pereira <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   Usually, I use the option 'content' to polling a file looking for the token. what should I use if I am running a system with systemd?
>
> <snip>
> check file telegraf_notwrite with path /var/log/mysystem.log
>     if content = "MyString" then alert
> </snip>
>
> do we have some plans to support some checks using the journalctl?
>
> I mean: journalctl -x -u mysystem.service
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