p4plogtail

p4plogtail

This utility is part of p4prometheus and will continuously tail a p4p log file, writing completed commands in JSON format to an output file.

Uses go-libp4dlog for actual log file parsing.

It is intended to provide a simple way to export commands to Elastic Search and similar tools.

Overview

This can be run as a spawned process or packaged up via systemd

Configuration

The config file is by default p4plogtail.yaml:

# p4p_log: the p4d log file, e.g. SDP would be /p4/1/logs/p4p.log
# This file can be rotated without issue
p4p_log:     /p4/1/logs/p4p.log
# json_log: the output JSON file containing one line per completed command.
# Can also be rotated together with the p4_log
json_log:   /p4/1/logs/p4plog.json

Running the process

$ ./p4plogtail -h
usage: p4plogtail [<flags>]


Flags:
  -h, --help                     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
  -c, --config="p4plogtail.yaml" Config file for p4plogtail.
      --p4plog=""                P4PLOG file to process (overrides value in config file if specified)
      --jsonlog=""               Name of ouput file in JSON format (overrides value in config file if specified)
      --debug                    Enable debugging.
      --version                  Show application version.