negbie / fancy

fancy let's you fanout rsyslog to Loki and is meant to be executed by rsyslog under omprog

Setup

1. Download fancy from releases or compile it from sources
2. Make fancy executable. chmod +x fancy
3. Move fancy to /opt. mv fancy /opt/
4. Edit and paste following under /etc/rsyslog.conf. vim /etc/rsyslog.conf

    module(load="omprog")

    $template fancy,"%timegenerated:::date-rfc3339% %syslogseverity% %hostname% %programname%%msg%\n"

    action(type="omprog" name="fancy" template="fancy" output="/var/log/fancy.log" binary="/opt/fancy --loki-url http://lokihost:3100")

5. Make sure you have set the right Loki URL
6. Restart rsyslog. systemctl restart rsyslog
7. Check logs under /var/log/syslog and /var/log/fancy.log
8. Check example and build a fancy dashboard! Uh fancy :)