LogDog CLI

LogDog's logdog tool is a command-line LogDog Coordinator client.

Subcommands

The logdog tool supports several subcommands. To see a list, run logdog without any additional flags.

Authentication (auth-login)

The auth-login subcommand can be used to obtain authentication credentials. After running auth-login successfully, subsequent accesses with the tool will use the cached authentication credentials.

You can log out using the auth-logout subcommand, or check your authentication status with auth-info.

cat

The cat subcommand allows a log stream to be viewed. If the log stream is still streaming, logdog will block, showing new stream data as it becomes available.

$ logdog -project <project> cat <prefix>/+/<name>

The project may also be integrated into the log stream path. For example, the previous command is equivalent to:

$ logdog cat <project>/<prefix>/+/<name>

query

The query subcommand allows queries to be executed against a Coordinator instance.

$ logdog query <params>...

The -json parameter can be supplied to cause the query to produce detailed JSON output.

Several types of query constraints are supported. Note that these constraints are a subset of LogDog's full query API; consequently, support for additional query constraints may be added in the future.

Path

Paths are of the form “full/path/prefix/+/stream/name”, where the “stream/name” portion can contain glob-style “*” and “**” operators with the following rules:

• Full prefix constraints will return log streams that share a Prefix
  • For example -path 'foo/bar' will return all log streams that have the prefix, “foo/bar”.
• Single-component globbing.
  • For example, -path 'foo/+/*/baz'.
• Right-open globbing via ** will match all log streams that begin with a specified path.
  • For example, -path 'foo/+/bar/**'
• Left-open globbing via ** will match all log streams that end with a specified path.
  • For example, -path 'foo/+/**/baz'

Timestamps

Queries can be limited by timestamp using the -before and -after flags. Timestamps are expressed as RFC 3339 time strings.

For example:

$ logdog query -after '1985-04-12T23:20:50.52Z'

Tags

Queries can be restricted to streams that match supplied tags using one or more -tag constraints.

Tags are specified in one of two forms:

• -tag <key> matches all streams that have the “” tag, regardless of its value.
• -tag <key>=<value> matches all streams that have a “” tag with thed value, “”.

ls

The ls subcommand allows the user to navigate the log stream space as if it were a hierarchial directory structure.

To view project-level streams:

$ logdog ls
myproject

$ logdog ls myproject
foo
bar

$ logdog ls myproject/foo
+

$ logdog ls myproject/foo/+
baz

$ logdog ls myproject/foo/+/baz

The -l flag may be supplied to cause metadata about each hierarchy component to be printed.