vredens/logspit repository overview

⁠Info

Logspit is a tool for simulating application logging. Its main goal was to quickly setup a simulation of a production environment logging in order to test logging infrastructure.

Check the repository: https://bitbucket.org/vredens/docker-logspit/overview⁠

Main features are

• Poisson distribution of log entries, defined by an average log entries per second

Next on the list

• Improve log entry generation performance
• Multiple samples
• Reduce busy wait in favor of usleep

⁠Run it

⁠Outputing to a file to load onto Elasticsearch.

docker run \
	--rm \
	--name logspit \
	-v /your/log/sample/folder:/app/data \
	-e LOGSPIT_AVG_PER_SECOND=100 \
	vredens/logspit > log-samples.log

⁠Using docker to output directly to graylog or logstash endpoints

docker run \
	--rm \
	--name logspit \
	--log-driver=gelf \
	--log-opt gelf-address=udp://localhost:12201 \
	vredens/logspit