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When shipping Nginx Access logs to Logstash, I recommend formatting the log lines in JSON straight out of Nginx. This speeds up filtering in Logstash later. It does come with two caveats though; Nginx escapes many characters that may appear

Automating Logstash Configurations With Consul-Template

Consul and Consul-Template are two powerful tools for updating server files and executing a command after the file has been updated. This makes it a great and lightweight tool for managing configuration files for applications that need to reload or restart after

Javascript Scope

In this post I go through some examples of Javascript Scopes using nested functions. The main rule is that when a variable is referenced, Javascript looks to the local scope first then progressively moves outward until it finds a definition

Directory Tree Files to Consul Keys

This one-liner traverses a directory tree, reads the files and PUTs them into Consul Key/Value Store using the filename as the key and it’s contents as the value.

for i in $(find . -type f | sed 's/\.\///g'); do echo; echo $i; curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -XPUT --data "@$i" "http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/$i"; done;

1	for i in $(find . -type f \| sed 's/\.\///g'); do echo; echo $i; curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -XPUT --data "@$i" "http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/$i"; done;

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Nginx Access Logs in JSON

Automating Logstash Configurations With Consul-Template

Javascript Scope

Directory Tree Files to Consul Keys