From 16910ad438606556959015db54137f828b5bf246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominic Ricottone <me@dominic-ricottone.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:10:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] New server monitoring stack

Grafana+loki+promtail has become a real annoyance.
Syslog has never hurt me.

Abandon modernity. Embrace tradition.
---
 .gitmodules              |  3 +++
 syslog-ng/README.md      |  3 ---
 syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf |  9 ++++-----
 tailon/Makefile          | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 tailon/README.md         | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tailon/src               |  1 +
 6 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tailon/Makefile
 create mode 100644 tailon/README.md
 create mode 160000 tailon/src

diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 302f6a5..e6a5946 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "nginx/nginx-dav-ext-module"]
 	path = nginx/nginx-dav-ext-module
 	url = https://github.com/arut/nginx-dav-ext-module
+[submodule "tailon/src"]
+	path = tailon/src
+	url = https://github.com/gvalkov/tailon.git
diff --git a/syslog-ng/README.md b/syslog-ng/README.md
index 669c772..9721cc5 100644
--- a/syslog-ng/README.md
+++ b/syslog-ng/README.md
@@ -25,6 +25,3 @@ $conman run --detach --name syslog --restart always \
     registry.intra.dominic-ricottone.com/syslog-ng:latest
 ```
 
-Should be used with `registry.intra.dominic-ricottone.com/loki`
-and `registry.intra.dominic-ricottone.com/promtail`.
-
diff --git a/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf b/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
index 7ef3d1c..b896559 100644
--- a/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
+++ b/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
-@version: 4.1
+@version: 4.7
 
 source src_inet {
   network(transport("udp") port(514));
   network(transport("tcp") port(601));
 };
 
-destination dest_promtail {
-  syslog("promtail" transport("tcp") port(601));
-  file("/var/log/test.log");
+destination dest_file {
+  file("/var/log/received.log");
 };
 
 log {
   source(src_inet);
-  destination(dest_promtail);
+  destination(dest_file);
 };
 
diff --git a/tailon/Makefile b/tailon/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..31458d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tailon/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+CONMAN=sudo docker
+
+REGISTRY=registry.intra.dominic-ricottone.com
+IMAGE=tailon
+TAG=latest
+
+src/frontend_bin.go:
+	cd src && make frontend_bin.go
+
+image: src/frontend_bin.go
+	cd src && $(CONMAN) buildx build --push --progress=plain \
+		--platform linux/arm64,linux/amd64 \
+		--tag $(REGISTRY)/$(IMAGE):$(TAG) \
+		.
+
+.PHONY: image
diff --git a/tailon/README.md b/tailon/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e12825c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tailon/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# tailon
+
+
+## Build and Deploy
+
+```
+make image
+```
+
+
+### Tags
+
+ + `latest`
+
+----
+
+## Use
+
+Can be used with any container manager toolchain.
+
+Try:
+
+```
+$conman run --detach --name tailon --restart always \
+    --mount type=bind,src=$logfile,dst=/var/log/tailon.log \
+    registry.intra.dominic-ricottone.com/tailon:latest
+```
+
diff --git a/tailon/src b/tailon/src
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..51b2b77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tailon/src
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 51b2b779ac1aec154c1288ca54beca39bf1d7d11
-- 
2.45.2