Papertrail Cookbook

This cookbook configures the Papertrail remote_syslog2 agent. To configure rsyslog for use with Papertrail, check out the Papertrail documentation.

Supported Platforms

• RHEL 6 / CentOS 6
• RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
• Amazon Linux 2017.03
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Debian 9

This cookbook has been tested on Chef 13.x and 12.21.x.

Usage

Quickstart

1. Set the attributes node['papertrail']['destination_host'], node['papertrail']['destination_port'], and at least one file/directory in node['papertrail']['files'].
2. Include papertrail in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[papertrail]"
  ]
}

This will install remote_syslog2 with the configured settings from the Chef node attributes.

Recipes & their attributes

This cookbook only has one recipe, which does all setup and configuration. There are a number of attributes you can configure, all of which mirror the configuration items found in the remote_syslog2 README.

• node['papertrail']['files']

Type: Array

A list of files or patterns to send to Papertrail. At least one entry is required.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['files'] = [
'/tmp/test.log',
'/srv/foo.txt',
'/var/log/*.bar'
]


To tag a file/path, the structure is slightly different:
ruby
node['papertrail']['files'] = [
'/tmp/test.log',
'/srv/foo.txt',
{'path' => '/srv/foo.txt', 'tag' => 'my_tag'}
]


• node['papertrail']['exclude_files']

Type: Array

A list of files or patterns to exclude.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['exclude_files'] = [
'/tmp/exlude.log',
'/srv/dont-include.log',
'/var/log/skip-me.log'
]


• node['papertrail']['exclude_patterns']

Type: Array

A regex of log message patterns to exclude.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['exclude_patterns'] = ['\d+ things']

- node['papertrail']['hostname']

Type: String

Override the default hostname.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['hostname'] = 'my-super-awesome-hostname'


• node['papertrail']['destination_host'], node['papertrail']['destination_port'], & node['papertrail']['destination_protocol']

Type: String (destination_host & destination_protocol)
Type: Integer (destination_port)

The Papertrail host and port to send logs to, and the protocol to use. These are required. Destination and port default to empty, while Protocol defaults to tls.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['destination_host'] = 'logsN.papertrailapp.com'
node['papertrail']['destination_port'] = XXXXX
node['papertrail']['destination_protocol'] = 'tls'


• node['papertrail']['new_file_check_interval']

Type: Integer

Overrides the default file check interval.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['new_file_check_interval'] = 30


• node['papertrail']['severity']

Overrides the default remote_syslog2 severity level.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['severity'] = 'warn'


• node['papertrail']['facility']

Overrides the default remote_syslog2 facility.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['facility'] = 'local7'


• node['papertrail']['version']

Type: String

Use a different version of remote_syslog than the default.

Example:
ruby
node['papertrail']['version'] = '0.18'


Testing

See [TESTING.md](TESTING.md)

Contributing

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

License and Authors

License: See [LICENSE](LICENSE.md)

Author: Mike Julian (@mjulian)