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Re: Logstash as a log aggregator
the input relation name has an interface redis, ie it connects to redis, ie
logstash implements the redis server protocol
bundle example
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lazypower/charms/bundles/big-data-logger/bundle/view/head:/bundles.yaml
-k
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Alexander Lomov <lomov.as@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey, Kapil.
>
> Thank you for pointing out a new versions of logstash charms. I've got
> versions of a charm that I've used from first lines of a search in charm
> store, I didn't thought they could be outdated so much.
>
> I've looked at new charm today and have some questions. Logstash charm is
> in python (yey!) and uses logstash v1.4.2, but doesn't have connection to
> redis (strange thing: it "provides" a relation called "input"
> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lazypower/charms/trusty/logstash/trunk/view/head:/metadata.yaml#L11).
> logstash-agent still used logstash v1.1.4, but it might be ok.
>
> The question now is: do you have any working bundle with to test work of
> log aggregation charms for logstash and rsyslog? It would help me a lot to
> understand how they should work together.
>
>
> Thank you 1 more time,
> Alex L.
>
>
>
> On 21 October 2014 01:48, Kapil Thangavelu <kapil.thangavelu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> per email update on this earlier today, recent versions of logstash in
>> dev are at
>>
>> cs:~lazypower/trusty/logstash-agent
>> cs:~lazypower/trusty/logstash
>>
>> not sure i would use the agent (jruby + jvm) as its heavyweight, but the
>> server is reasonable and supports redis inputs per the std scaling semantic
>> around logstash.
>>
>> -k
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Alexander Lomov <lomov.as@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, all.
>>>
>>> Today I tried to create juju bundle with
>>> logstash+elasticsearch+kibana+rails. Here is approximate bundle that I used
>>> - https://gist.github.com/allomov/088d54229c051a6266b4 (I needed to do
>>> some stuff manually). Here is my impressions and experience:
>>>
>>> 1. logstash charms are outdated:
>>> 1. current logstash stable version is 1.4.2 vs 1.1/1.2 in the
>>> charms;
>>> 2. charms are written in bash without using charmhelpers;
>>> 3. embedded elasticsearch of logstash-indexer charm is not
>>> compatible with actual version of kibana charm;
>>> 4. current version of elasticsearch charm doesn't support
>>> relation with logstash-indexer.
>>> 2. logstash-agent is build to use redis embedded
>>> in logstash-indexer. I'm not sure that this is correct solution since user
>>> may want to connect his redis to charms or create redis cluster. Adding
>>> implicit connection of logstash-agent to logstash-indexer through redis
>>> will make architecture more clear.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure that logstash charms need to be updated with latest
>>> charmhelpers and python implementation. What do you think about it ?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Alex L.
>>>
>>>
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