AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service Logs

Firstly Make sure you have the aws cli, eksctl & kubectl installed on local machine using the following guide

Also make sure you have setup aws configure with your AWS credentials.

To do this run the following command in your aws terminal.

aws configure

When you type this command, the AWS CLI prompts you for four pieces of information: access key, secret access key, AWS Region, and output format. This information is stored in a profile named default. This profile is used when you run commands, unless you specify another one.

Update your config by running the following command. Replace <enter_region> and <enter_name> with your AWS cluster region and name.

aws eks --region <enter_region> update-kubeconfig --name <enter_name>

Check you can connect to your cluster by running the following command:

kubectl get svc

You're going to need the filebeat deployment manifest.

curl -L -O cdn.logit.io/filebeat-kubernetes.yaml

Now you have the manifest we need to add your Stack Logstash endpoint details.

Open the file in a text editor and around lines 58 you'll see the environment variables that need changing.

env:
- name: LOGSTASH_HOST
  value: "guid-ls.logit.io"
- name: BEATS_PORT
  value: "00000"

After updating the code should look as below.

env:
- name: LOGSTASH_HOST
  value: ["your-logstash-host"]
- name: BEATS_PORT
  value: ["your-ssl-port"]

Exit and save the file.

Now we're going to apply the file to the cluster.

kubectl apply -f filebeat-kubernetes.yaml

If you need to apply further updates after running the apply command you may need to remove the yaml file, make your changes and then apply again.

Confirm your pod has deployed, you should see output similar to that below.

kubectl get po -A

or

kubectl logs ["podname"] --namespace=kube-system

Browse to your Kibana instance and you should see Logs arriving in your Stack.

Now you should view your data:

View my data

If you don't see logs take a look at How to diagnose no data in Stack below for how to diagnose common issues.

If you don't see data appearing in your Stack after following the steps, visit the Help Centre guide for steps to diagnose no data appearing in your Stack or Chat to support now.