go-libtail

Tailing library based on fstab/grok_exporter tail package - cross compiles easily and doesn't lock Windows files!

Will evolve for use in other libraries such as p4prometheus and go-libp4dlog

See cmd/tailer for a very simple command line interface showing very basic usage.

Alternatives

Tried papertrail/go-tail but had two problems:

• reopen wasn't working properly
• log files was locked on Windows if being tailed

When I tried to import the files from fstab/grok_exporter I found the Oniguruma dependency made life rather trickier - especially when cross compiling for Windows (even though the instructions all worked - just took a long time!)

ToDo

• Proper config