Splunky defines and changes the standard log formatter to produce output that is splunkable.
The log line includes Rails' request id in a key=value format.
This allows for easy splunking as you can simply do a transaction request_id
to corelate all log lines associated with a single user request.
2014-06-22 08:56:46.297 +1000 request_id=4a160cbb-9ddc-45d2-8c16-0c4a2c3f183a the log message
Add this to your Gemfile
gem 'splunky'
If you're using splunky
, I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line and tell me what you think at: [email protected]
It's on GitHub, you know what to do!