Ansible Swatch Role

An Ansible role to install Swatch: The Simple Log Watcher with a handy Slack/Irker integration & monit files.

Requirements

Tested on Ubuntu Trusty and Precise. Uses apt to install things so it won't work on RedHat etc as it is written.

Role Variables

This role is designed to watch log files. Which files get watched gets defined by the swatch_files in your vars.

You'll also need to set {{ swatch_email_to }} somewhere to have email delivered.

This role will also post to Slack or Irker from swatch using curl in a shell script.

This gets around the need for creating a .conf and .init for every log file. Any log file can be added to swatch_files -- and defined per inventory.

e.g. For Slack:

Those vars can be used to build a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
ERROR=$1
curl -X POST --data-urlencode 'payload={"channel": "swatch", "username": "'$HOSTNAME'", "text": " Swatch error from : _'$HOSTNAME'_ : `'"'$ERROR'"'` ", "icon_emoji": "':$ICON:'"}' \
 {{ swatch_slack_webhook_url }}

That shell script ends up in /usr/local/bin/slack-swatch.sh

Example Playbook

---

- name: swatch
  hosts: all
  user: devopsdude
  remote_user: devopsdude
  sudo: yes
  roles:
    - ansible-swatch-role
  vars_files:
    - group_vars/swatch

Then run it something like:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/other -u devopsdude -K ./swatch.yml

Author Information

• LYRASIS

License

The project is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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