Convert a formatted log stream into metrics.

• Synopsis
• Log Conventions
• Setup

L2met receives HTTP requests that contain a body of rfc5424 formatted data. Commonly data is drained into l2met by logplex or log-shuttle.

Once data is delivered, l2met extracts and parses the individual log lines using the log conventions and then stores the data in redis so that outlets can read the data and build metrics. The librato_outlet is the most popular and will put all of your metrics into your librato account. See the setup section to get started.

L2met uses convention over configuration to build metrics.

$stdout.puts("measure=db.latency val=20")

Metrics Produced:

• db.latency.min
• db.latency.median
• db.latency.perc95
• db.latency.perc99
• db.latency.max
• db.latency.mean
• db.latency.last
• db.latency.count
• db.latency.sum

You can run l2met in a multi-tenant mode or a single-user mode. The multi-tenant mode enables multiple drains with unique librato accounts. The single-user mode exposes 1 drain and maps to 1 librato account. This setup guide assumes single-user mode.

Once you have created the account, visit your settings page to grab you username and token. Keep this page open as you will need this data later in the setup.

$ git clone git://github.com/ryandotsmith/l2met.git
$ cd l2met
$ heroku create your-l2met --buildpack git://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git
$ git push heroku master

I prefer redisgreen, however there are cheaper alternatives. Whichever provider you choose, ensure that you have set REDIS_URL properly.

$ heroku addons:add redisgreen:basic
$ heroku config:set REDIS_URL=$(heroku config -s | grep "^REDISGREEN_URL" | sed 's/REDISGREEN_URL=//')

$ heroku config:set APP_NAME=your-l2met LIBRATO_USER=u@d.com LIBRATO_TOKEN=abc

$ heroku scale web=1 librato_outlet=1

If you wish to run more than 1 outlet, you will need to adjust a config variable in addition to scaling the process. For example, if you are running 2 librato_outlets:

$ heroku config:set NUM_OUTLET_PARTITIONS=2
$ heroku scale librato_outlet=2

Now that you have created an l2met app, you can drain logs from other heroku apps into l2met.

$ heroku drains:add https://l2met:`uuid`@your-l2met.herokuapp.com/logs -a your-app-that-needs-l2met

Install log-shuttle.

$ curl -o log-shuttle "https://s3.amazonaws.com/32k.io/bin/log-shuttle"
$ chmod +x log-shuttle

Send data to l2met.

$ export LOGPLEX_URL=https://l2met:123@your-l2met.herokuapp.com/logs
$ echo 'measure="hello-from-your-l2met"' | log-shuttle

Now you should be able to see hello-from-your-l2met in your librato metrics web ui.