EB Rudder

About

EB Rudder is a small CLI for tailing Elastic Beanstalk logs.

Prerequisites

To install and use the EB Rudder, you will need Node.js (version 4 or greater) and NPM (nodejs.org).

Installing

EB Rudder is meant to be installed via NPM.

npm install -g ebrudder

Running

After installing EB Rudder will be available on your path.

Options

To see a what options are available to a command ask for help:

ebrudder help

Usage

ebrudder

ebrudder Will query your EC2 environment to find all instance associated with the provided Elastic Beanstalk environment name (-e) and then tail all of the specified log files (-f) across all instances.

Credentials work similar to the AWS CLI. We expect you have environment variables for your AWS key data, optionally you can supply a profile (-p) to reference an existing profile from your aws/.credentials file. If you do not have an environment variable for region set we will use the one provided which will default to us-east-1. The same applies when using profiles and no region is found.

Arguments:

• -e, --env <name> Name of the elastic beanstalk environment
• -u, --user [username] The username to used to log into instances. Supports: ec2-user, root, ubuntu (defaults to ec2-user)
• -k, --key <keypair path>: Path to your keypair file
• -i, --private, Use instance private IP (needed for VPCs) (defaults to false)
• -p, --profile <profile name> AWS profile to use from .aws/credentials
• -r, --region [regionName] AWS region to use. Supports: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2 (defaults to us-east-1)
• -f, --files <file> File path or pattern to tail, multiples supported. (defaults to /var/log/eb-activity.log)

ALKS

Are you using ALKS? This becomes even simpler:

alks sessions open -o creds -n callinschooliny -f && ebrudder -e searchengine-pp1-master -k ~/.ssh/my.pem -p callinschooliny -i