
We are going to setup on a Ubuntu 20.04 server mtail with apt, but mtail is also available as binaries on the github page of the project. Mtail is available in most Linux distributions. You will find examples for classical services like Apache, Postfix, MySQL and many other services supported by Bleemeo. Mtail programs can be a bit hard to write, but Google provides a good set of example in the "example" directory on the Github repository of the project. This Prometheus exporter will be scraped by the Bleemeo monitoring agent and sent to the Bleemeo Cloud platform to be stored. Ingest logs and with "programs" (the name of the rules that transform logs files into metrics) export metrics, in various formats: it can be collectd, Graphite or in ourĬase Prometheus. Mtail is a Google project that "extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection into a timeseries database". We are going to use mtail here to expose Prometheus metrics that will be ingested by Bleemeo Cloud monitoring platform where metrics will be stored andĭashboards will be created to visualize metrics. You will still have to connect to the machine to check logs, but trends and alarms are centralized Help you to identify issues and trigger an alarm.


As of today, Bleemeo is not ingesting logs file, but you can use some external tool to ingest logs metrics which should be pretty useful as it will
