Tailgate
Tailgate is a nodejs app to pipe tail -F into websockets.
It's a very simple way to have real-time access to your logs. It uses socket.io and coffeescript, and is great for keeping track of scribe logs.
API
Tailgate exposes its feeds as a simple pub/sub api through socket.io connections making it easy to build visualizations or monitoring tools as simple web pages.
Installation
cd <install/directory>
git clone [email protected]:vimeo/tailgate.git
cd tailgate
npm install
cp conf/conf-dist.sh conf/conf.sh
Edit conf/conf.sh to have the correct values for your installation.
Optional
If you want to use the init.d.sh script.
cp startup/init.d-dist.sh startup/init.d.sh
sudo ln -s <fullpath to tailgate/startup/init.d.sh> /etc/init.d/tailgate
Edit the startup/init.d.sh script to use the installation directory and tailgate user to run as. Ensure the tailgate user has write permissions to startup/ so that it can write the pidfile.
sudo /etc/init.d/tailgate start
sudo /etc/init.d/tailgate stop
sudo /etc/init.d/tailgate restart
Troubleshooting
- Make sure the HTTP port specified in
conf/conf.shis not already in use - Enable logging in
conf.shby settingLOGGING="1"