A small tool for monitoring service logs in journald looking for rare evens sending an alert immediately. An sms is sent using gatewayapi.com.

This project was created in a hurry, so don't have high expectations!

Note that version 1 simpy read log files directly trying to follow log rotation using inotify.

• Python 3.7

cysystemd

Binary wheels can be found here: https://github.com/mosquito/cysystemd/releases/

installing from source:

sudo apt install build-essential libsystemd-dev pip install cysystemd 

# The service name to watch in journald WATCHER_SERVICE_NAME="docker.service" # Pattern in log file to look for WATCHER_PATTERNS='["some pattern", "another pattern"]' # Phone number (sms). Must be in format 00<country-code><number> WATCHER_PHONE_NUMBER=004700000000 # The message to send WATCHER_PHONE_MESSAGE="Halp!" # gatewayapi.com api account SMS_SECRET SMS_KEY