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# LogWisp Documentation
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LogWisp is a pipeline-based log transport and processing system written in Go.
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It collects log entries from files, stdin, or other LogWisp nodes; rate-limits,
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filters, and formats them; and distributes them to files, consoles, live network
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streams, or downstream LogWisp nodes.
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## Documentation Map
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- [Installation](installation.md): building, installing, and running as a
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service
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- [Deployment](deployment.md): `deploy/lw-deploy.sh` for edges, aggregators,
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containers, services, jails
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- [Architecture](architecture.md): component model, data flow, concurrency,
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back-pressure
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- [Configuration](configuration.md): TOML structure, precedence, environment
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and CLI overrides
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- [Sources](sources.md): every input plugin and its options
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- [Sinks](sinks.md): every output plugin and its options
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- [Filters](filters.md): pattern-based inclusion and exclusion
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- [Formatters](formatters.md): output shaping and sanitization
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- [Chaining](chaining.md): multi-node topologies and the chain wire protocol
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- [Networking](networking.md): listeners, dialers, timeouts, connection limits
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- [Security](security.md): TLS, mTLS, and peer authorization; threat model and
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current limits
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- [mTLS Authentication](mtls-auth-plan.md): design and rationale for
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certificate-based authorization
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- [Password Authentication](scram-auth-plan.md): design and rationale for
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Argon2id-SCRAM authentication; mTLS hardening
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- [CLI](cli.md): flags, signals, exit codes, `lw auth`; also the `lw(1)`
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manual, [`lw.1`](lw.1)
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- [Operations](operations.md): running, monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting
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- [To Do](todo.md): planned work: packaging, `lw --tui` and its shared configuration engine
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A fully annotated configuration covering every option lives at
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[`config/logwisp.toml`](../config/logwisp.toml).
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## Capabilities
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### Pipeline
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- A Unix filter without configuration: stdin to stdout, line for line
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- Independent named pipelines, each `sources → flow → sinks`
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- Fan-in (many sources per pipeline) and fan-out (many sinks per pipeline)
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- Isolated sinks: a stalled sink drops its own events rather than stall the
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pipeline; only the console sink waits, so a filter loses no line
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- Hot reload of pipeline configuration via `SIGHUP`/`SIGUSR1` or a file watch
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### Inputs
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`file` (directory tail with rotation detection), `console` (stdin, one
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reader per process),
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`random` (synthetic generator), `null`, and the chain ingest listeners
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`tcp_chain` and `http_chain`.
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### Outputs
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`console` (control characters escaped on a terminal), `file` (rotating),
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`http` (Server-Sent Events plus a JSON status
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endpoint), `tcp` (broadcast server), `null`, and the chain forwarders
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`tcp_chain` and `http_chain`.
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### Processing
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- Token-bucket rate limiting with an optional per-entry size cap
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- Chainable include/exclude regex filters with `or`/`and` logic
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- `raw`, `txt`, and `json` formatting with selectable sanitizer policies
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- Optional flow-level heartbeat entries
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### Transport security and authentication
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- TLS 1.2/1.3 on every network source and sink, listener and dialer alike
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- Mutual TLS: listeners can require and verify client certificates; dialers can
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present a client identity
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- Authorization by certificate identity, per listener: named peers rather than
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everything the CA issued, with the `http` sink's endpoints gated too
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- Password authentication (Argon2id-SCRAM) bound to the listener's certificate,
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with bearer tokens on HTTP listeners and a `lw auth` CLI, and browser
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logins behind a TLS-terminating proxy
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- Node binding, so a chain source labels entries from the sender's certificate
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identity or username rather than from what the sender claims
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See [Security](security.md) for what each layer does and does not give you.
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## Quick Start
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Without a configuration file `lw` is a filter, exiting 0 at the end of input;
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a pipeline without `--source` reads stdin and one without `--sink` writes
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stdout:
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```bash
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lw < app.log > copy.log
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tail -F app.log | lw --filter include:patterns=ERROR,patterns=WARN
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```
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As a service, a file holds the pipelines:
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```toml
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[[pipelines]]
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name = "app"
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[pipelines.flow.format]
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type = "json"
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sanitizer_policy = "json"
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[[pipelines.plugin_sources]]
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id = "app_logs"
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type = "file"
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[pipelines.plugin_sources.config]
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directory = "/var/log/myapp"
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pattern = "*.log"
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[[pipelines.plugin_sinks]]
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id = "stdout"
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type = "console"
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[pipelines.plugin_sinks.config]
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target = "stdout"
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```
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```bash
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lw -c config.toml
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```
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## System Requirements
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- **Operating systems**: Linux (kernel 6.10+), FreeBSD (14.0+)
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- **Architecture**: amd64
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- **Go**: 1.27.2+ to build from source
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Network sources and sinks bind and dial IPv4 or IPv6, each keeping strictly to
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the family of its host ([Networking](networking.md#address-family)).
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## License
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BSD 3-Clause.
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