Custom Files - Log Monitoring | Atatus Documentation

With Atatus Log Monitoring, you can monitor specific log files.

Setup & Configuration

This module is included with the Atatus Infra agent by default, please follow the below steps to enable.

Add the following lines in the file /etc/atatus-infra-agent/atatus.yml.

copy
```
logs_enabled: true
```
Copy the files example configuration file.

copy
```
cd /etc/atatus-infra-agent/conf.d/files.d/
sudo cp files.yml.template files.yml
```

Update the file /etc/atatus-infra-agent/conf.d/files.d/files.yml with below configurations.

copy

#Log section
logs:

  # - type: (mandatory) type of log input source (file)
  #   paths: (mandatory) Set paths if type is file
  #   service: (mandatory) name of the service owning the log
  #   source: (mandatory) attribute that defines which integration is sending the log
  #   severity: (optional) status type of the log (info / error / warn). Default info

  - type: file
    paths:
      - /var/log/my-app/info-file*.log
    service: my_service
    source: my_source
    # Processing rules are the way to group multiple consecutive messages into single one.
    # Below processing rule will group messages which has one or many spaces at the beginning of a message.
    processing_rules:
      - type: 'multiline'
        pattern: '^[[:space:]]'
        negate: false
        group: 'after'

  - type: file
    paths:
      - /var/log/my-app/error-file.log
    service: my_service1
    source: my_source1
    severity: error
    processing_rules:
      - type: 'multiline'
        pattern: '^[[:space:]]'
        negate: false
        group: 'after'

Restart the atatus infrastructure agent.

copy
```
sudo service atatus-infra-agent restart
```