etsy/logster — Issue #9: Support for non-realtime log analysis?
Author: travis-bear
Created: 2011-11-21 20:14:07+00:00
State: open

I was not able to locate any kind of logster mailing list, so I'm entering this as a ticket. Apologies if this is the wrong place for this question.

I'm not a python expert, but looking at the logster code, it seems like the first time logster reads through a large log file, all the data in the log will be sent as a single data point to graphite. Successive log file reads (presumably via cron) will then continue to generate new graphite data points more or less in realtime. Is that correct? What I want to do is read in older log files that might be days (or more) old, without having them collapse down into a single data point.

What is the take on this? Am I'm correct that this is not currently supported? If so, is there interest in accepting an implementation of this feature as a patch?

Thanks!

-Travis