Have you thought of using syslog to send to the server that is running heka?
In you syslog.conf add:
mail.info @10.10.10.10
cron.* @10.10.10.10
or whatever you want to send to heka.
Of course on the server that is receiving you would have to make sure
syslog is listening on 10.10.10.10 and open the syslog port in the firewall.
I'm also pretty sure you can send syslog directly to heka on a remote
server but, I haven't done the research to figure that out.
On 3/27/15 7:54 PM, Ali wrote:
Hi, all.
It's looking like some of the machines I wanted to feed into Heka are
too old to run Heka. Most of the data I wanted from them are in
/var/log. One of the reasons why I wanted to use Heka is that it is
supposed to do an exceptional job with log file handling, so that's
particularly tragic. ;-) Now I'm figuring out how to get the log
file data and send it to Heka.
What is a comparably robust tool other than Heka for watching log
files and sending them places? Most likely we'll be putting up Kafka
as a standard buffer for (probably) all of our log and other event
data before going to Heka, so as long as the solution goes to either
Heka or Kafka it should be fine.
I was looking at the stdin/stdout
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-stdin/stdout>
Kafka client as a simple solution for sending data from Linux machines
to Kafka, but that doesn't address the log file watching problem.
There's rsyslog
<http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/master/configuration/modules/imfile.html>,
but it doesn't claim to be infallible when log files are rotated.
Since rsyslog is standard on all our RHEL boxes it seems like that's
the solution to beat. Any other ideas?
FYI, I also looked at deploying Heka to those older RHEL boxes in a
Docker container, but the machines that are too old to run Heka are
also too old to run Docker.
TIA,
Ali
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