Nice utility to scan real-time all your php fatals and parse errors in production

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Edit cron tab to point to this file and run php script every one minute:

*/1 * * * * php /yourpath/phpFatals.php web01
*/1 * * * * php /yourpath/phpFatals.php cron01
*/1 * * * * php /yourpath/phpFatals.php etcetc 


Edit the below variables:

<?php
$mainEmail   = "[email protected]";
$clearLogsAt = 52428800;
$logPath     = "/var/log/php_error.log";

$date = date("d-M-Y H:i", strtotime("-1 minute"));
$out  = "/tmp/fatal_".str_replace(array('-',' ',':'), array('_','_','_'),$date).".out";

system("nice grep '$date' $logPath | grep 'Fatal' > $out");
system("nice grep '$date' $logPath | grep 'PHP Parse error' >> $out");
$results = file_get_contents($out);
echo $results."\n";
if (!empty($results))
{
   mail($mainEmail,"PHP Fatals 'n Parse Errors On - ".$argv[1],"PHP Fatals 'n Parse Errors for $date Minute:\n\n".$results);
}
unlink($out);

if (filesize($logPath) >  52428800)
{
   system("nice cp $logPath /var/log/".date("d_M_Y_H_i")."_php_error.log");
   system("echo '' > $logPath");
   mail($mainEmail,"PHP Error Log Cleared at 50MB - ".$argv[1],"PHP Error Log Cleared at 50MB - ".$argv[1].".  Historical backup located here: /var/log/".date("d_M_Y_H_i")."_php_error.log");
}

?>

The script has been tested even if the error log is logging like crazy the monitor will clear out the log once it exceeds to keep the I/O lightweight (cause original version spiked server when rogoue error logs happened)