kibana-streamer

Kibana log streamer

This tool is handy for streaming logs that you are storing in ElasticSearch

Setup

To use this tool you must make sure that you have node installed on your machine, as well as having installed the dependencies for this tool.

Assuming you are running on Mac

	$ brew install npm
	$ make

Running the streamer

	$ ./bin/pull-logs -q "app.raw:spew"
	{"method":"GET","path":"/","status":"200","size":"13","duration":0.000457428}
	10.10.80.100 - - [16/Dec/2015:19:01:52 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 13 0.0009
	{"method":"GET","path":"/","status":"200","size":"13","duration":0.000405188}
	10.10.70.192 - - [16/Dec/2015:19:01:52 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 13 0.0010
	{"method":"GET","path":"/","status":"200","size":"13","duration":0.000501326}

Useful features

This utility comes with all sorts of useful features

	$ ./bin/pull-logs --help
	Usage: bin/pull-logs

	Options:
		-h, --help           Show help  [boolean]
		-n, --number         The max number of results ElasticSearch will return  [default: 5]
		-q, --query          the query to perform in ElasticSearch  [required]
		-i, --instance-name  prepend instance name to logs  [boolean]
		-t, --timestamp      prepend timestamp to logs  [boolean]
		-f                   stream output as data is pumped into ElasticSearch  [boolean]
		-r, --refresh        refresh rate for streaming output (ms)  [default: 500]

	Examples:
		bin/pull-logs  Pulls logs from kibana and formats output