mtail

GitHub describes it as extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database. The repository metadata lists Go as its primary language. The metadata lists the Apache-2.0 license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.

GitHub describes it as extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database. The repository metadata lists Go as its primary language. The metadata lists the Apache-2.0 license. The README describes the project this way: mtail is a tool for extracting metrics from application logs to be exported into a timeseries database or timeseries calculator for alerting and dashboarding.

The README section "mtail - extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection into a timeseries data" states: It fills a monitoring niche by being the glue between applications that do not export their own internal state (other than via logs) and existing monitoring systems, such that system operators do not need to patch those applications to instrument them or writing custom extraction code for every such application.

The README section "mtail - extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection into a timeseries data" states: Metrics are exported for scraping by a collector as JSON or Prometheus format over HTTP, or can be periodically sent to a collectd, StatsD, or Graphite collector socket.

The README section "Precompiled binaries" states: Precompiled binaries for released versions are available in the Releases page on Github. Using the latest production release binary is the recommended way of installing mtail .

The repository README is the source for this review. It does not replace a local installation or an independent test.

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