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RabbitMQ
Ship RabbitMQ application logs to logstash
Step 1 - Install Filebeat
deb (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/oss-6.x/apt stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/beats.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install filebeat-oss
rpm (CentOS/RHEL/Fedora)
sudo rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
echo "[elastic-6.x]
name=Elastic repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/oss-6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/elastic-beats.repo
sudo yum install filebeat-oss
Step 2 - Locate Configuration File
deb/rpm /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
Step 3 - Add RabbitMQ Log Location
Filebeat does not currently have a module to process the rabbitmq application logs.
Therefore we need to add the rabbitmq application log location to the filebeat inputs. Since rabbitmq uses a multi-line log format we will need to configure a seperate log section to handle it.
Add the following to the end of the log input example, before the filebeat.config.modules section.
- type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /var/log/rabbitmq/*.log
fields:
type: rabbitmq
multiline.pattern: ^\=
multiline.match: before
Step 4 - Configure Output
We will be shipping to Logstash so that we have the option to run filters before the data is indexed.
Comment out the elasticsearch output block.
## Comment out elasticsearch output
#output.elasticsearch:
# hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
Uncomment and change the logstash output to match below.
output.logstash:
hosts: ["your-logstash-host:your-port"]
loadbalance: true
ssl.enabled: true
Step 5 - Validate Configuration
Let's check the configuration file is syntactically correct.
deb/rpm
filebeat -e -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
Step 6 - Start Filebeat
Ok, time to start ingesting data!
deb/rpm
sudo systemctl enable filebeat
sudo systemctl start filebeat
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