rotated_log streams a collection of rotated logs

Synopsis

Given a log file access.log in the following format

1376611200000 <some data>
1376611201000 <some data>
1376611202000 <some data>

and rotated in the format $log-$date.{xz,gz,bz2} so that the directory looks like

access.log
access.log-20130801.xz
access.log-20130701.xz
access.log-20130601.xz

This library will provide a way to stream (and follow) the entire log when given a timestamp to start from.

Installation

$ npm install rotatedlog

Usage

var log = require('rotatedlog');

var path = '/path/to/access.log'
  , start_point = 1376611201000;

log.stream(path, start_point, function (err, stream) {

    stream.on('data', function (chunk) {
        // ...
    });

});

Additional notes

• No buffering takes place. You'll need to parse lines yourself if you want line-by-line streaming
• The start_point is only used to find the first file to stream, i.e. the final stream may contain some data that was logged before the starting timestamp
• The stream stays open to accept new data (equivalent to a tail -F $log)

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Sydney Stockholm [email protected]

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