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Getting upstart to log to syslog with tags
Sep 23, 2015 - 1 minutesI was setting up the ELK stack and had quite a fun time trying to get upstart to log to syslog WITH a log tag ( aka: my-application ) so it could be filtered inside Kibana.
Here is a working example for STDOUT and STDERR:
1respawn
2respawn limit 15 5
3
4start on runlevel [2345]
5stop on runlevel [06]
6
7setuid app-user
8setgid app-user
9
10script
11 # Redirect stdout to syslog
12 mkfifo /tmp/app-stdout-fifo
13 ( logger -p user.info -t your-app-tag </tmp/app-stdout-fifo & )
14 exec 1>/tmp/app-stdout-fifo
15 rm /tmp/app-stdout-fifo
16
17 # Redirect stderr to syslog
18 mkfifo /tmp/app-stderr-fifo
19 ( logger -p user.err -t your-app-tag </tmp/app-stderr-fifo & )
20 exec 2>/tmp/app-stderr-fifo
21 rm /tmp/app-stderr-fifo
22
23 exec ./your-app-binary
24end script
Hope this helps someone else, there as a lot of mis-leading and broken examples on Google & StackOverflow.
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