Logstash

Install and configure Logstash indexer. ServiceCall for consumer creation

Version 1.0-43p

Features

• Install and configure Logstash indexer
• ServiceCall for consumer creation

Configurations

Indexer

• Logstash 1.3.3, Kibana 3 , CentOS 6.4 (us-east-1/ami-bf5021d6), AWS EC2 m1.small, root

Consumer

• Logstash 1.3.3 consumer independent from OS

Consumer example

For the first launch Logstash indexer and add it as service to your environment

After that add consumers via ServiceCall to Logstash service

Add consumer on apache host

workflow:
   type: workflow.Instance
   interfaces:
     ...
     ## This is interface complimentary for the same interface in Logstah service. This will allow to perform ServiceCall
     logger:
       install-consumer: send-command(list<string> target-hosts, string identity, list<string> log_target => string kibana-dashboard-url)
     ...
   required: [logger,...]
   configuration:
     configuration.workflows:
       launch: 
         steps:
           ...
           ## After Apache install send its logs in our Logstash
           ## For that goal execute ServiceCall. Provide a few parameters: target-hosts(hosts ips for consumer installation), identity(credentials for target_hosts), log_target(in format: path_to_log::log_type(log_type need for logstash  grok filters))
           - enable-logger:
                action: logger.install-consumer
                precedingPhases: [ install-apache ]
                parameters:
                  commandCallTimeout: 20 minutes
                  target-hosts: "{$.signals.vm.ips}"
                  identity:  "{$.image.user}"
                  log_target: ["/var/log/httpd/error.log::apache-error", "/var/log/httpd/access.log::apache-access"]
                output:
                 kibana-dashboard-url: kibana-dashboard-url
         return: ### Values returned from workflow
            ...
            ##  Url to Kibana dashboard with filter for that host
            kibana-dashboard-url:
            value: "{$.kibana-dashboard-url}"