Hi Martijn are you using the logstash reporter https://github.com/logstash/puppet-logstash-reporter , would it be possible to share your puppet kibana dashboards, and logstash.conf file
regards Walid On 27 August 2014 19:54, Martijn <[email protected]> wrote: > We still use Puppet Dasboard (with PuppetDB) to get a quick overview of > the state of nodes and the logs of their Puppet runs. Not very fancy and a > little hard to search, but it works well as a read-only dashboard. > > Furthermore we use the ELK-stack (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) (See > http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/), which is essentially an > open-source alternative to Splunk, to ship all logs from each host via a > queue to a central server, where they're normalized, processed and stored > in Elasticsearch. I've created several dashboards in Kibana that query that > data to graph metrics and show anomalies, not just for Puppet runs. I'd > prefer to add some active alerting to this pipeline, but have yet to figure > that out. > > There are many ways to do this, but this works pretty well for us. > > Regards, Martijn > > > Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 19:34:51 UTC+2 schreef Mike Reed: > >> Hello all, >> >> I've recently been looking into various methods for configuring >> meaningful logging from my puppet 3.6 master/agent nodes. I've typically >> gone the route of grep'ing through syslog on both master/agents and I'd >> like something a little more robust and user friendly for other who may not >> be hip on going through hundreds of lines of syslog information in addition >> to a simpler design. >> >> I've recently been playing with an agent's puppet.conf and simply trying >> to set the logdir using this with no success at all (permissions have been >> changed to allow puppet to write to that directory): >> [agent] >> logdir= /var/log/puppet >> >> I've also tested syslog facility configurations but after some time, it >> seemed like having to modify multiple configuration files to get puppet >> logging consistent, seems a bit bulky to me. >> >> I suppose I have two questions: >> >> 1. Is there a simple way to push messages to a file other than >> /var/log/syslog on an Ubuntu machine? >> 2. Is there a preferred way in the community by which people aggregate >> logs to make troubleshooting nodes issues easier to manage? >> >> Thank you all for your time in advance. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mike >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/59be2841-9cf1-49cd-ac2d-d219db0e2c38%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/59be2841-9cf1-49cd-ac2d-d219db0e2c38%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAN4dctqzWsG9DJs0X635yqTv34KRbmgcjH5eJPB0TwHVwcVVFg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
