go-log2kafka

A simple daemon that reads a file (tail -f style) and sends every line to a Kafka topic.

Uses https://github.com/ActiveState/tail and https://github.com/Shopify/sarama

Intended for nginx and apache access logs -- so it does some special character encoding/escaping for that format (because \xXX is not valid JSON).

Usage of ./go-log2kafka:
  -comp=0: Kafka compression codec (default: 0 for no compression)
  -file="/var/log/syslog": filename to watch
  -n=false: Quit after file is read, do not wait for more data, do not read/write state
  -server="localhost:9092": Kafka endpoints, comma separated (default: localhost:9092)
  -topic="logs": Kafka topic name (default: logs)
  -v=false: Verbose output

Package example

The ubuntu directory contains an example how to package this tool: build.sh will fetch all sources, compile them, and use fpm to build a Debian package containing the binary, the configuration, and the upstart config.

Config examples

The example directory contains configuration snippets for Apache, nginx, and varnishncsa.