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

[Martin Pala]

Thanks Jorge, contributions are welcomed.

You can see the contributions related info here: 
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit#markdown-header-contributing


> On 17 Feb 2017, at 16:33, Jorge Pereira <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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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