Logstash Rabbitmq App Configuration

Ship RabbitMQ application logs to logstash

Step 1 - Install Filebeat

deb (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats//-oss-7.15.1-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i -oss-7.15.1-amd64.deb

rpm (CentOS/RHEL/Fedora)

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats//-oss-7.15.1-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi -oss-7.15.1-x86_64.rpm

macOS

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats//-oss-7.15.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf -oss-7.15.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

Windows

Download and extract the Windows zip file.
Rename the -<version>-windows directory to ``.
Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator.
Run the following to install as a Windows service:

.\install-service-.ps1

If script execution is disabled on your system, you need to set the execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run. For example: PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-.ps1.

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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

If you’re running Filebeat 8.1+ filebeat.inputs needs to be filestream instead of logs:

filebeat.inputs:

- type: filestream
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - /var/log/rabbitmq/*.log
  fields:
    type: rabbitmq
  multiline.pattern: ^\=
  multiline.match: before

Step 4 - Configure output

We'll 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"]

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Step 5 - Validate configuration

Let's check the configuration file is syntactically correct by running directly inside the terminal. If the file is invalid, will print an error loading config file error message with details on how to correct the problem.

deb/rpm

sudo  -e -c /etc//.yml

macOS

cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
./ -e -c .yml

Windows

cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
.\.exe -e -c .yml

Step 6 - Start Filebeat

Ok, time to start ingesting data!

deb/rpm

sudo systemctl enable filebeat
sudo systemctl start filebeat

Step 7 - how to diagnose no data in Stack

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