mtail

Free tool from Google that extracts monitoring metrics from application logs.

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mtail is a free, open-source tool from Google that extracts monitoring metrics from plain-text application logs and exports them into a timeseries database, without requiring the application to be modified. It's aimed at ops teams who need metrics from applications that only emit logs, not structured metrics.

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