ansible-papertrail

An Ansible role for installing Papertrail.

Role Variables

• papertrail_version - Release of remote_syslog2 to use
• papertrail_conf - Application logs configuration file (default: /etc/log_files.yml)
• papertrail_host - Host for Papertrail's logging endpoint (default: logs2.papertrail.com)
• papertrail_port - Port for Papertrail's logging endpoint (default: 45551)
• papertrail_preserve_fqdn - Configure if rsyslog need to respect FQDN (default: off)

Usage

Ensure that papertrail_host and papertrail_port are set to the endpoints provided to your account by Papertrail. Both can be found in the user account settings.

In addition, this role does not attempt to setup any configuration for application logs. Only system logs are shipped to Papertrail by default (via Rsyslog). If you want to ship a custom set of application logs, wrap this role with a project specific role that templates the papertrail_conf file. Generally, this is /etc/log_files.yml and looks like this inside:

files:
  - /var/log/httpd/access_log
  - /var/log/httpd/error_log
  - /opt/misc/*.log
  - /home/**/*.log
  - /var/log/mysqld.log
  - /var/run/mysqld/mysqld-slow.log
exclude_files:
  - old
  - 200\d
hostname: www42  # override OS hostname
exclude_patterns:
  - exclude this
  - \d+ things
destination:
  host: logs.papertrailapp.com
  port: 12345   # NOTE: change this to YOUR papertrail port!
  protocol: tls
new_file_check_interval: "10" # Check every 10 seconds

Example Playbook

See the examples directory.