[chef] Re: Parsing Chef's Multiline Output

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Mar 2, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Greg Zapp 
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 wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to know if anyone is dealing with Chef's multiline output when 
> shipping to something like logstash->elasticsearch.  Currently Chef does 
> not delineate log entries when they span multiple lines.  I'm considering 
> monkey patching the logger to add a frame around the log entries but I'm 
> not sure where the best place to do this is?  Ideally I would get it 
> implemented before chef makes a single log entry…

There are a lot of handlers that show how to get structured data out of each 
Chef run. Send that to your server rather than the raw log output.

--Noah

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