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NAME

File::Tail::Scribe - Monitor and send the tail of files to a Scribe logging system.

SYNOPSIS

use File::Tail::Scribe;

my $log = File::Tail::Scribe->new(
  directories => $args{dirs},
  msg_filter => sub {
      my ($self, $filename, $line) = @_;
      return ('info', 'httpd', "$filename\t$line");
      },
  );

$log->watch_files();

DESCRIPTION

Basically this module connects File::Tail::Dir to Log::Dispatch::Scribe.

It monitors files in a given directory (or set of directories), such as Apache log files in /var/log/httpd, and as the log files are written to, takes the changes and sends them to a running instance of the Scribe logging system.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

$tailer = File::Tail::Scribe->new(%options);

Creates a new instance. Options are:

  • directories, filter, exclude, follow_symlinks, sleep_interval, statefilename, no_init, max_age

    See the equivalent options in File::Tail::Dir: "directories" in File::Tail::Dir, "filter" in File::Tail::Dir, "exclude" in File::Tail::Dir, "follow_symlinks" in File::Tail::Dir, "sleep_interval" in File::Tail::Dir, "statefilename" in File::Tail::Dir, "no_init" in File::Tail::Dir, "max_age" in File::Tail::Dir.

  • scribe_options

    This is a hash containing all of the options to pass to <Log::Dispatch::Scribe/new>.

  • msg_filter

    An optional coderef that can be used to preprocess messages before they are sent to Scribe. The code is passed ($self, $filename, $line), i.e. the File::Tail::Scribe instance, the filename of the file that changed, and the line of text that was added. It must return ($level, $category, $message), i.e. the log level (info, debug etc), the Scribe category, and the log line that will be sent to Scribe. An example:

    msg_filter => sub {
  my $self = shift;
  my $filename = shift;
  my $line = shift;
  $filename =~ s{^.*/}{};		      # remove leading dirs
  $filename =~ s{\.[^.]*$}{};               # remove extension
  $filename ||= 'default';                  # in case everything gets removed

  return ('info', 'httpd', "$filename\t$line");
};

    If no msg_filter is provided, the log level is given by default_level, the category is the filename after removing leading paths and filename extensions, and the message is the log line as given.

  • default_level

    Default logging level. May be set to any valid Log::Dispatch level (debug, info, notice, warning, error, critical, alert, emergency). Defaults to 'info'.

METHODS

File::Tail::Scribe provides the same methods as File::Tail::Dir, plus the following:

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Jon Schutz, <jon at jschutz.net> notes.jschutz.net

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-file-tail-scribe at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-Tail-Scribe. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc File::Tail::Scribe

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Jon Schutz, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.