Email Log Streaming

The problem

Cron jobs, server monitoring tools, and legacy systems communicate via email. Every night your inbox fills with backup reports, disk usage summaries, and failed-job notifications — unstructured, unfiltered, and impossible to search across time.

Email-based alerting tools like Nagios, Zabbix, and Monit are critical infrastructure but produce a firehose of messages with no good way to aggregate, search, or set smart keyword alerts on top of them.

How it works

Each log stream has a unique email address: logs@bunnylogs.com with your logspace UUID in the subject line. Send any email to that address and BunnyLogs splits the body into individual log entries — one per line — and streams them to your browser.

Email format

To: logs@bunnylogs.com

Subject: your-logspace-uuid

Body: one log line per line

Works with

Linux cron — set MAILTO=logs@bunnylogs.com with UUID in the subject
Nagios / Icinga — point alert emails at your stream address
Zabbix — use email media type with your stream UUID
Monit — route alert emails to BunnyLogs
Any SMTP-capable tool — if it can send an email, it works

crontab — stream cron output to BunnyLogs

MAILTO=logs@bunnylogs.com
MAILSUBJECT=YOUR-UUID

# Backup job — output goes to your log stream
0 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh

# Disk check
*/15 * * * * df -h | awk '$5 > "80%"'

sendmail / mailx

echo "Backup completed: 4.2 GB" | \
  mail -s "YOUR-UUID" logs@bunnylogs.com

Python (smtplib)

import smtplib
from email.message import EmailMessage

msg = EmailMessage()
msg["To"]      = "logs@bunnylogs.com"
msg["Subject"] = "YOUR-UUID"
msg.set_content("Job finished\nRows processed: 14 822\nDuration: 3m 41s")

with smtplib.SMTP("bunnylogs.com", 25) as s:
    s.send_message(msg)

The email subject must be your logspace UUID. The body is split line-by-line — each non-empty line becomes one log entry. The subject line itself is not logged.

Send logs to BunnyLogs via email

The problem

How it works

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Centralize your email-based log output