log.io v0.3.x

[Mike Smathers]

Hi folks,

As you may have noticed over the past month, we've released a brand new version of log.io, complete with a rebranded website (http://logio.org).

We just posted the release announcement on Narrative Science's engineering blog:

http://narrativescience.com/blog/announcing-the-new-log-io/

A few highlights:

- The log server now uses a TCP interface to receive log messages, instead of socket.io.

- Harvester configuration now defines streams instead of filenames, which are lists of file paths.

- The npm installation process now works in user space, without sudo, adduser, forever, etc...

- The entire codebase has been rewritten in CoffeeScript, and the front-end uses Backbone.js.

It's now trivial to write third-party harvesters, and in fact we're already trying out a logstash plugin:

https://github.com/msmathers/logstash/blob/feature/log.io/lib/logstash/outputs/logio.rb

There's a new build recipe for v0.3.2:

https://github.com/NarrativeScience/Log.io/wiki/v0.3.2-Build-Recipe-(Ubuntu-12.04)

For previous log.io users, a couple things you should know about v0.3.x:

- The installation process no longer automatically daemonizes the server and harvester.  It's up to you to set that up.

- There are no longer "History" screens, only "Stream" screens.  We had to sacrifice log history for the TCP interface, at least for now.

[kaven shanmugam]

Hi Smathers,

Current version of log.io(v0.3.3) is missing to have the lib folder in github location. 

So if anyone try to install & launch the log.io server, it is not working as expected.

Kindly commit the dependency lib folder to proceed further & please retest if it is working as expected, this may help a lot to the newly install user.

Thank you so much to have a very nice feature as well.