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Apache access and error logs in Fluentd
To parse and add Apache2 access and error logs add this section to your /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf Fluend config file Restart td-agent Now, access apache web pages and you will see logs going into elastic database. In Kibana management, create new index pattern like apache-* to visualize apache logs in kibana
Syslog messages in EFK stack
You can use opensource syslog-ng tool to capture syslog messages from various sources, like remote servers, devices, local logs and so on. These logs can then be forwarded to fuentd on EFK stack. Here is a sample config of syslog-ng config to receive logs from devices and hosts on tcp and udp port 514. Received […]
EFK stack – versatile and very capable analytics platform
So far I was happily using ELK stack to feed syslog messages into Elasticsearch. In ELK stack I had used Logstash to aggregate syslogs and feed them into elasticsearch. Recently, I came across fluentd and found it quite interesting and flexible. Using fluentd with Elasticsearch and Kibana I have now build a EFK stack. EFK […]