Quick and dirty solution would be to somehow tail the logs and use console producer to send the data to kafka.
Thanks, Neha On Sep 3, 2013 2:09 PM, "Maxime Petazzoni" <maxime.petazz...@turn.com> wrote: > Tomcat uses commons-logging for logging. You might be able to write an > adapter towards Kafka, in a similar way as the log4j-kafka appender. I > think this would be cleaner than writing something Tomcat-specific that > intercepts your requests and logs them through Kafka. > > /Max > -- > Maxime Petazzoni > Sr. Platform Engineer > m 408.310.0595 > www.turn.com > > ________________________________________ > From: Yang [teddyyyy...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:09 AM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: default producer to retro-fit existing log files collection > process? > > in many setups we have production web server logs rotated on local disks, > and then collected using some sort of scp processes. > > I guess the ideal way to use kafka is to write a module for tomcat and > catches the request , send through the kafka api. but is there a "quick and > dirty" producer included from kafka to just read the existing rotated logs > and send through kafka API? this would avoid having to touch the existing > java code > > thanks > Yang >
