I've used logstash to do this. It basically tail's the log file and sends 
entries to greylog. 

> On Sep 10, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Anybody uses graylog2?
> 
> Is there a simple "forwarder" that can be configured to send a list of files
> or directory to graylog2?
> 
> All the solutions I am finding are specific to apps (using log4j etc...) or
> very amateurish, such as "tail -f blah | netcat -xxxx" without consideration
> for when files are roated or when the shell running the tail dies. We are
> evaluating different log aggregator with search facilities, and this makes
> graylog2 a non-starter.
> 
> Is there really no way to do this? I find it odd considering the work that has
> been done on the server side, and how much information there is about it out
> there (so I assume it is used a lot).
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yves.
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