Simple Log Alerts to Slack
There are many log alerting systems on the market. The best known is probably Datadog. There’s also Logtail, Papertrail, Splunk, Logstash and others. These are well put together products with a host of great features, such as excellent UIs, sophisticated live searching via web interfaces and sometimes query languages and alerting. They require various levels of installation and they have costs, either through volume-based tiered systems or monthly payments. For a bootstrapped business, this can be problematic, for instance when a surge of logs - indicating a possible important problem that…
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Simple Log Alerts to Slack is a log monitoring tool designed for bootstrapped businesses that need alerting without expensive volume-based pricing. It watches log files and sends alerts to Slack when specified patterns are detected, offering a lightweight alternative to enterprise solutions like Datadog or Splunk. The tool is built for developers who want simple, cost-effective log monitoring without complex installation or recurring subscription fees.
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There are many log alerting systems on the market. The best known is probably Datadog. There’s also Logtail, Papertrail, Splunk, Logstash and others. These are well put together products with a host of great features, such as excellent UIs, sophisticated live searching via web interfaces and sometimes query languages and alerting. They require various levels of installation and they have costs, either through volume-based tiered systems or monthly payments. For a bootstrapped business, this can be problematic, for instance when a surge of logs - indicating a possible important problem that needs to be solved - pushes volume on to another tier. Should the “log ransom” be paid? Instead, I recalled from earlier times surely the simplest log watcher: Swatchdog [1]. It is rather venerable software. Its file history from its source download shows dates in 2015, but it was written much earlier - the 90s or possibly 80s by Todd Atkins [2]. We wanted to have alerts in Slack - the blog explains how we did it. In short: *very simply*. The code is available [3]. [1]: https://github.com/ToddAtkins/swatchdog [2]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddatkins/ [3]: https://github.com/profitviews/swatchdog
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