scribe

Has anyone used Facebook Scribe? (the tool for logging everything).

How does it work? (Explain it in terms of server, writes, GETs, values, whatever). DOes it work with Win32 apps? ...

scribe with protocol buffer and advanced thrift?

I have two questions here: Question 1: -- can thrift provide an inner-class functionality? (see my example next) -- if it can, can thrift use such functionality easily? Here is the scribe interface (scribe/if/scribe.thrift). But its message field can only be string, which I believe not flexible enough. !/usr/local/bin/thrift --cpp...

Making MultiCast with Scribe

Hi, I need to make a MultiCast with Scribe. The problem is this: We have 4 machines. 1) Is sending the messages 2) Is receiving the messages with category A 3) Is receiving the mesasges with category B 4) MUST receive all the messages (Cat. A & B) I thought this: Make a Scribe configured in Multi mode and inside it add a Buffer store I...

Logging data with scribe

None of the scribe examples I've seen actually mention the best way to take logs/logfiles and send them to scribe. I could configure a logrotate script that has a postrotate section that "cats" the rotated file to scribe (but then I get minutes latency at best). The other option is to keep a "tail -f= | my_scribe_sender" and hope that t...

OAuth Invalid signature issue with Digg

Hi everyone! So I'm trying to authenticate my app to Digg using OAuth (and I'm totally not an OAuth expert). I use the Scribe Java library. I keep on getting the HTTP 401 Authorization Required. Inside the body of the response, it is a 5001 Invalid Signature Error. I have read this Digg Google Groups Thread and I didn't really understa...

Logging/tracking in PHP: Scribe, Chukwa, log4php?

This is probably a pretty high-level question that requires a lot of explaining, but I'm in need of a lot of explaining. Basically I'm developing a PHP application that requires a lot of logging and tracking. Tracking clicks, interactions, performance, etc. etc. Anything under the sun. Facebook's Scribe and Yahoo's Chukwa are both great...

How to build facebook's scribe?

Hi All, I just downloaded the source code of facebook's scribe. I'm new to it and having read the readme.build file , I can say I could barely understand how to build it. Could anyone give me the step by step procedures? thanks... :) ...

Scribe, Flume and Chukwa - what are alternatives?

Hello, I would like to learn about alternatives to those projects, especially designed to aggregate data from logs from multiple nodes (>500) and designed for low memory/cpu usage. I'm familiar with scribe, flume and chukwa and I think that they use too much resources (JRE, many libraries). All comments and recommendations about aggre...

What does a Scribe log look like?

I'm having trouble understanding what I can log with Scribe, or even what the log output looks like... Is it a text or binary format? What is the structure of a log message? Time-Message tuples? Any answers or links to documentation would be greatly appreciated :) ...