NarrativeScience/Log.io — Issue #13: Log.io not reading logs created by forever
Author: ralphholzmann
Created: 2011-11-08 17:43:55+00:00
State: open

Heyo,

I have two node.js scripts running with the `forever` module, and I'd like to use log.io to track their logs, but it doesn't seem to be pushing any messages through. I've set up the `/etc/log.io/harvester.conf` correctly, but still no go.

Here's my forever list:

![Forever list](http://grabs.ralphholzmann.com/r2l.png)

Here's my `harvester.conf`

```
/* Log.io log harvester configuration */

exports.config = {

// Log server host & port
server: {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: 8998,
},

// Watch the following log files, defined by label:path mappings
log_file_paths: {
haraka: '/root/sendtodropbox/prod/logs/haraka.log',
queue: '/root/sendtodropbox/prod/logs/queue.log',
},

// Define name of current machine.
// Alternatively, you can set this name in /etc/profile:
// export LOGIO_HARVESTER_INSTANCE_NAME='my_log_machine'
// If so, comment out the line below
instance_name : 'sendtodropbox'

}
```

The harvester / server connect seems to work fine:

![snap](http://grabs.ralphholzmann.com/r2m.png)

Now I _know_ there are messages being appended to these logs. If I `tail -f` the log files, there's a ton of activity. For some reason its just not being pushed through the harvester. I've `start`ed and `stop`ed the log.io server and harvester multiple times to see if that was an issue, but it didn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ralph