logshipper

Logshipper is a simple utility to wrap another application, intercept its stdout and stderr output, and ship that to a JSON-encoded-log logging server (such as logstash).

Logshipper itself simply wraps Alan Shreve's log15 tool.

The primary use case for logshipper is to wrap legacy applications which can dump their logs to stdout or stderr for use in a container-based deployment with centralised logging.

logshipper accept the following arguments:

• -application (optional) set the application tag with the provided name
• -binary (required) set the program to execute
• -arguments (optional) set any additional argument to pass to the main executable
• -prefix (optional) set some text which will be prepended to any log entries
• -loghost (required) set the loghost and port to which the logs should be sent (ex: log.mydomain.com:9514)