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et_elk (4) Versions 3.0.0

Configures an Elk Cluster

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ELK

This cookbook is the top level wrapper for the EverTrue ELK cookbook ecosystem

Requirements

  • et_elk Ties all the peices of an ELK cluster together
    • elk_forwarder Installs and Configures Logstash forwarder
    • elk_logstash Installs and Configures a central Logstash server
    • Leverages the logstash cookbook
    • elk_elasticsearch Installs and Configures an optimized Elasticsearch for use with Logstash
    • Leverages the elasticsearch cookbook
    • elk_kibana Installs and Configures Kibana for visualizing logs
    • Leverages the kibana cookbook

How do I actually use this system

1. Forwarders

You need to apply the client recipe to all your nodes. This will install and configure the Logstash Forwarder using elk_forwarder

2. Configure Forwarders

You then need to determine what logs you want to forward and you need to come up with a unique "type" to identify them. I.E. logs from rails app log files will have their type field set to rails_app.

From your Attributes

set['elk_forwarder']['config']['files']['myapp']['paths'] = ['/var/log/myapp.log']
set['elk_forwarder']['config']['files']['myapp']['fields']['type'] = 'myapp'
set['elk_forwarder']['config']['files']['myapp']['fields']['foo'] = 'bar'

Or from your recipe. This one loops through a list of apps

apps.each do |app|
  node.set['elk_forwarder']['config']['files']['myapp']['paths'] = ["/var/log/#{app}.log"]
  node.set['elk_forwarder']['config']['files']['myapp']['fields']['type'] = app
  node.set['elk_forwarder']['config']['files']['myapp']['fields']['foo'] = 'bar'
end

3. Write your pattern

We need to build a pattern(s) to add to evertrue_patterns.erb or another patterns template that you have setup. Grab a bunch of sample logs and use the Grok Constructor utility to construct a pattern that will match your logs. I usually find an existing pattern online and then tweak it to properly match the logs I am parsing.

Give your pattern a name like ET_PUPPIES_APP and add it to your patterns template.

4. Write your filter

This is pretty open ended, but here are the key requirements.

  • Checks the log's type field with an if condition
  • Groks the log with the pattern you just created
  • Parses a field containing some gross timestamp into the standard @timestamp field using the date filter. Note that the timestamp field is very different from @timestamp. timestamp is just a string extracted from the log which needs to be converted into a nice date/time.

Example:

filter {
  if [type] == "nginx_access" {
    grok {
      match => ["message", "%{ET_NGINXACCESS}"]
    }

    date {
      match => [ "timestamp", "dd/MMM/YYYY:HH:mm:ss Z" ]
      remove_field => [ "timestamp" ]
    }
  }
}

Once you have written your filter, save it to a new template and call the logstash_config resource with something like this in your cookbook's recipe

logstash_config 'nginx filter' do
  templates_cookbook 'yourcookbook'
  templates 'filter_nginx' => 'filter_nginx.erb'
  instance 'server'
end

And now you are shipping, recieving, groking, parsing, inspecting, mutating, indexing, and storing your logs!

Recipes

default

Installs everything on the node and configures it to be a central log server that recieves logs from the clients

  1. Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and kibana
  2. Configure logstash with inputs and outputs using elk::server

client

Configures the node to be a client that ships logs to the central logstash server

  1. Install logstash-forwarder via elk_forwarder
  2. Configure logstash-forwarder to forward logs to central log servers
    • Central logstash servers are discovered via the node['et_elk']['logstash_discovery'] attribute
    • To Disable auto-discovery simply set node['et_elk']['logstash_discovery'] to ''

Usage

depends 'et_elk', '~> 1.0'
# To install and configure the forwarder

include_recipe 'et_elk::client'

# To install everything on the node

include_recipe 'et_elk::default'

Contributing

  1. Fork the repository on Github
  2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
  3. Write your change
  4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
  5. Run the tests with kitchen test, ensuring they all pass
  6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Author:: EverTrue, inc. (eddie.hurtig@evertrue.com)

Change Log for et_elk

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Changed

[3.0.0] - 2015-12-22

Changed

  • Cookbook functionality
    • Move to Java 8
    • Remove "client" functionality completely
    • Move most "server_config" content (filters, patterns, etc) to evertrue/logserver-cookbook
    • Merge in evertrue/elk_elasticsearch-cookbook, evertrue/elk_logstash-cookbook, and evertrue/elk_kibana-cookbook
    • Move key/cert configuration to evertrue/logserver-cookbook
    • Drop kibana recipe in favor of directly including kibana_lwrp::install
    • Stop using default recipe just to install dependencies
    • Give elasticsearch recipe its own attributes file
    • Move kibana attributes to server
    • Clean up the recipe headers
    • Remove blank/false attributes from server attributes file
    • Use underscores instead of spaces for ssl-related keys
    • Move attributes affecting logstash filter files into their own namespace for easy parsing
    • Set lumberjack default codec to "plain" to match what we are using in prod
    • Automatically include x_input_processor tag in all inputs
    • Clean up a lot of useless attributes
    • Remove resources that do nothing from logstash recipe
    • Move inputs/outputs definition to this cookbook (from evertrue/logserver-cookbook)
    • Craft a helper method (generate_module_config) to simplify the rendering of the input/output templates
    • Upgrade elasticsearch cookbook to version 2 (and associated cookbook changes)
    • Upgrade kibana to v4.3.0
    • Use less specific version for kibana_lwrp cookbook
  • Test functionality
    • Modernize TravisCI config
    • Substantially clean up and improve the integration tests
    • Remove Rubygems stuff completely (deprecated in favor of ChefDK)
    • Remove unused default instace from Travis tests
    • ServerSpec tests: Use net/http+JSON instead of cURL to parse ES status response

[2.3.3] - 2015-10-15

Changed

  • Add a Java-type timestamp matcher to the java log filter

[2.3.2] - 2015-10-15

Changed

  • Set flag x_input_processor on all inputs

[2.3.1] - 2015-10-15

Changed

  • Add service restart notifications to logstash_config resource calls

[2.3.0] - 2015-10-15

Added

  • Add log4j input for logstash

[2.2.0] - 2015-10-08

Added

  • A rails_basic filter handler for handling basic rails logs without fancy multiline parsing

[2.1.1] - 2015-10-05

Added

  • Attributes describing the plugins required for the logstash configs in et_elk

[2.1.0] - 2015-09-18

Changed

  • Version pins for elk_elasticsearch and elk_logstash

Added

  • Added sidekiq log proccessing support for events with the tag sidekiq

[2.0.0] - 2015-08-10

Changed

  • Changed the name elk -> et_elk
  • Match multiline log entries correctly
  • Clean up a bunch of recipe code
  • Spin off a new recipe from default called server (and its sub-recipe server_config)
  • Add a bunch of new ServerSpec tests
  • Avoid using storage cookbook w/ Vagrant
  • Update kitchen-ec2 config as per deprecations
  • Avoid the use of custom timestamp parsers
  • Drop support for 12.04
  • Change test environment name from _default to dev

1.3.5 - 2015-08-07

Added

  • Java App Patterns and Filters

1.3.4 - 2015-07-01

Changed

  • Specify that the multiline filter should send lines to the previous event

1.3.3 - 2015-07-01

Changed

  • Added extra patterns to attempt to match mesos timestamps
  • Parse and Remove the timestamp field for syslog events
  • Add Multiline support for singularity

1.3.2 - 2015-06-29

Changed

  • Removed .conf from template names

1.3.1 - 2015-06-29

Changed

  • The namespace for logstash input, filter, and output configuration attributes from elk_logstash to just elk

1.3.0 - 2015-06-29

Added

  • The inputs, outputs, and syslog filter moved from the elk_logstash cookbook

1.2.5 - 2015-06-26

Added

  • A common filter to perform a geoip lookup if a client_ip field is present
  • Instructions and guidlines for adding new patterns to evertrue_patterns

Changed

  • The raw timestamp field from mesos_timestamp to just timestamp as it is the primary time for that log
  • Removed year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and timezone fields as they aren't useful when the timestamp is parsed into a searchable date
  • Major cleanup of the schema. Lots of renaming of fields.

1.2.4 - 2015-06-26

Changed

  • Quoted ISO8601 to make configuration valid

1.2.3 - 2015-06-26

Changed

  • Used or instead of || in mesos slave filter

1.2.2 - 2015-06-25

Added

  • Filters to parse and remove the timestamp fied for haproxy and rails apps into @timestamp

1.2.1 - 2015-06-25

Changed

  • Add logstash_config resource for mesos filters

1.2.0 - 2015-06-24

Added

  • Test Kitchen role and attributes to converge a working All in One box
  • Initial Patterns and Filters for Mesos and Singlularity
  • Fauxhai to mock ohai data
  • date filter to NGINX logs

1.1.1 - 2015-06-23

Changed

  • Updated the ET_NGINXERROR pattern to properly match error logs

1.1.0 - 2015-06-22

Added

  • NGINX log parsing configuration

1.0.7 - 2015-06-18

Added

  • Fixes templates cookbook for evertrue patterns

1.0.6 - 2015-06-18

Added

  • Add HAPROXY config

1.0.5 - 2015-06-17

Changed

  • Loosen format of view and activerecord timing.

1.0.4 - 2015-06-17

Changed

  • The multiline filter's match pattern to accomodate logs with timestamp prefixed lines

1.0.3 - 2015-06-17

Added

  • SSL Certificate discovery attributes to find the CA cert

Changed

  • Fixed the rails app filter

1.0.2 - 2015-06-15

Added

  • A Fixup to wipe the elk_forwarder namespace if ['elk_forwarder']['config']['files'] is an array not the new format which is a hash

1.0.1 - 2015-06-15

Changed

  • Updated to elk_forwarder v2.0

1.0.0 - 2015-06-15

Added

  • Rails App log filter and pattern

Changed

Removed

0.0.1 - YYYY-MM-DD

Added

  • Initial Release

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3.0.0 failed this metric

FC003: Check whether you are running with chef server before using server-specific features: /tmp/cook/a305969a7badd67a5c72ced8/et_elk/recipes/elasticsearch.rb:11
FC007: Ensure recipe dependencies are reflected in cookbook metadata: /tmp/cook/a305969a7badd67a5c72ced8/et_elk/recipes/elasticsearch.rb:13