A simple tailer to send the data to remote machine using UDP. It was originally written to ship logs to logstash but it can be used to ship any text anywhere.

logtailer.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from time import sleep
import socket

log=open("somefile.log","r")
log.readlines()
pos=log.tell()        # This is the last line of the file

while True:
  line=log.readline()
  if line:
    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)        # I like UDP to send the logs.
    sock.sendto(line, ("localhost", 7897))
    pos=log.tell()        # save the current position so that tailer can resume from here.
  else:
    sleep(1)          # I don't want to check too soon. Sleep for 1 sec.
    log=open("somefile.log","r")
    log.seek(pos)        # Resume the position saved last.