asim/logslam

remote log viewer

Logslam: Centralized remote log streaming server and client

Logslam is written in ruby with eventmachine. It provides remote access to log files without needing ssh access to the server.

Install

gem install logslam

Usage

Usage: logslam [options]
    -c, --config-file FILE           Config file to run server
    -D, --daemonize                  Daemonize logslam when running the server
    -d, --dir DIRECTORY              The directory logs files are in
    -g, --get FILE                   Specify name of log file
	-h, --host HOST                  Host to connect to or run on as server (default: 0.0.0.0)
	-i, --interactive                Operate in interactive mode
	-l, --list                       List available log files
	-n, --lines LINES                Number of lines to tail
	-P, --port PORT                  Port to connect to or run as server (default: 8089)
	-p, --password [password]
	-u, --username USERNAME
	-s, --server                     Run a LogslamServer
    --help

Example:
    client: /usr/bin/logslam --get logfile --username foo --password bar
    server: /usr/bin/logslam -s -H localhost -P 8089 -d /tmp


Credentials can be stored in ~/.logslam in YAML format:
    username: foo
    password: bar
    host: baz

Quickstart Server:

The following command will start a server in the foreground and serve files from /tmp. Use -D to daemonize.

logslam -s -d /tmp

Quickstart Client:

list files:
logslam -l

get file:
logslam -g [filename]

get last 10 lines of file:
logslam -g [filename] -n 10