Logary Rutta intro

Henrik Feldt — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:00:44 +0000

Logary is coming up for its v5 release, so I figured now would be a good time to post my first blog entry at dev.to.

The last weeks I've been doing a lot of work on Rutta, Logary's log router, in order to make it easier to work with and more reliable. Logary is the core library and Rutta is a normal program/service that you can run in a docker container, and send logs to.

The lifecycle of the library is this:

Create a new Logary instance and configure it with where you want to send logs (Targets)
Get a Logger from the instance and log Messages to it

The lifecycle of Rutta is this:

Choose its mode:
- Router for ingesting data and sending it to a target
- Shipper for sending to a Rutta Router or a Rutta Proxy
- Proxy to bridge subnets and forward logs
If router, you can now choose what it listens to and where to it sends:
- Provide a number of "listeners", consisting of:
  - A transport (TCP, UDP, HTTP)
  - A binding (e.g. [::]:8080)
  - A codec (JSON, plain, binary, log4jxml, etc)
- Provide a provide a number of "targets", in URI format, to send to, e.g.:
  - stackdriver://./?projectId=my-gcp-project
  - console://./

That's it; you can try it yourself with docker run --rm -it haaf/rutta:5.0.0-rc.2.211cd352 — or use its Helm chart

Happy logging!

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Logary Rutta intro