community.general.logentries module – Module for tracking logs via logentries.com

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.logentries.

Synopsis

  • Sends logs to LogEntries in realtime

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

logtype

aliases: type

string

type of the log

name

string

name of the log

path

string / required

path to a log file

state

string

following state of the log

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

  • "followed"

  • "unfollowed"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • Requires the LogEntries agent which can be installed following the instructions at logentries.com

Examples

- name: Track nginx logs
  community.general.logentries:
    path: /var/log/nginx/access.log
    state: present
    name: nginx-access-log

- name: Stop tracking nginx logs
  community.general.logentries:
    path: /var/log/nginx/error.log
    state: absent

Authors

  • Ivan Vanderbyl (@ivanvanderbyl)