Circonus Logwatch

Circonus Logwatch is a small utility for extracting metrics from log files and forwarding to Circonus.

Install

1. mkdir -p /opt/circonus/{sbin,etc,etc/log.d}
2. Download latest release from repository (or build manually)
3. Extract archive into /opt/circonus
4. Create config in /opt/circonus/etc and log configs in /opt/circonus/etc/log.d

Options

$ /opt/circonus/sbin/circonus-logwatchd -h

Flags:
      --api-app string              [ENV: CLW_API_APP] Circonus API Token app (default "circonus-logwatch")
      --api-ca-file string          [ENV: CLW_API_CA_FILE] Circonus API CA certificate file (optional, Inside API server not using public certs)
      --api-key string              [ENV: CLW_API_KEY] Circonus API Token key or 'cosi' to use COSI config
      --api-url string              [ENV: CLW_API_URL] Circonus API URL (default "https://api.circonus.com/v2/")
  -c, --config string               config file (default is /opt/circonus/etc/circonus-logwatch.(json|toml|yaml)
  -d, --debug                       [ENV: CLW_DEBUG] Enable debug messages
      --debug-cgm                   [ENV: CLW_DEBUG_CGM] Enable CGM & API debug messages
      --debug-metric                [ENV: CLW_DEBUG_METRIC] Enable metric rule evaluation tracing debug messages
      --debug-tail                  [ENV: CLW_DEBUG_TAIL] Enable log tailing messages
      --dest string                 [ENV: CLW_DESTINATION] Destination[agent|check|log|statsd] type for metrics (default "log")
      --dest-agent-interval string  [ENV: CLW_DEST_AGENT_INTERVAL] Destination[agent] Interval for metric submission to agent (default "60s")
      --dest-cid string             [ENV: CLW_DEST_CID] Destination[check] Check ID (not check bundle)
      --dest-id string              [ENV: CLW_DEST_ID] Destination[statsd|agent] metric group ID (default "circonus-logwatch")
      --dest-instance-id string     [ENV: CLW_DEST_INSTANCE_ID] Destination[check] Check Instance ID
      --dest-port string            [ENV: CLW_DEST_PORT] Destination[agent|statsd] port (agent=2609, statsd=8125)
      --dest-statsd-prefix string   [ENV: CLW_DEST_STATSD_PREFIX] Destination[statsd] Prefix prepended to every metric sent to StatsD (default "host.")
      --dest-tag string             [ENV: CLW_DEST_TAG] Destination[check] Check search tag
      --dest-target string          [ENV: CLW_DEST_TARGET] Destination[check] Check target (default hostname)
      --dest-url string             [ENV: CLW_DEST_URL] Destination[check] Check Submission URL
  -h, --help                        help for circonus-logwatch
  -l, --log-conf-dir string         [ENV: CLW_PLUGIN_DIR] Log configuration directory (default "/opt/circonus/etc/log.d")
      --log-level string            [ENV: CLW_LOG_LEVEL] Log level [(panic|fatal|error|warn|info|debug|disabled)] (default "info")
      --log-pretty                  [ENV: CLW_LOG_PRETTY] Output formatted/colored log lines
      --show-config                 Show config (json|toml|yaml) and exit
      --stat-port string            [ENV: CLW_STAT_PORT] Exposes app stats while running (default "33284")
  -V, --version                     Show version and exit

Destinations

• --dest check metrics are sent directly to the circonus broker (will create a check if --dest-cid not provided). --dest-instance-id, --dest-target, and --dest-tag can be used to customize the check created.
• --dest agent metrics are sent to /write endpoint of local circonus-agent (http://localhost:2609/write/id) uses --dest-id to categorize the metrics. --dest-port controls the agent port (default 2609)
• --dest statsd metrics sent to statsd listener of local circonus-agent (localhost:8125) uses --statsd-prefix for each metric name, followed by --dest-id (--dest-statsd-prefix should match circonus-agent --statsd-host-prefix to ensure metrics are routed to correct destination by the agent). --dest-port controls the agent statsd port (default 8125)

Config

Create a JSON, YAML, or TOML config in /opt/circonus/etc/circonus-logwatch.(json|yaml|toml). Or, use environment variables and/or command line parameters.

YAML with a StatsD destination (send metrics to local circonus-agent statsd listener):

---
app_stat_port: "33284"
debug: false
debug_cgm: false
debug_metric: false
debug_tail: false
log_conf_dir: /opt/circonus/etc/log.d
api:
  key: circonus api token key
  app: circonus-logwatch
  url: 'https://api.circonus.com/v2/'
  ca_file: path to api ca file, if needed
destination:
  type: statsd
  config:
    id: circonus-logwatch
    port: "8125"
    statsd_prefix: "host."

JSON with a Check destination (send metrics directly to a Circonus check, a check will be created if not supplied via cid or url config settings):

NOTE: use cid or url to identify an existing check. Or, to search for a check a combination of target, search_tag and/or instance_id.

{
    "api": {
        "app": "circonus-logwatch",
        "ca_file": "path to api ca file, if needed",
        "key": "circonus api token key",
        "url": "https://api.circonus.com/v2/"
    },
    "app_stat_port": "33284",
    "debug": false,
    "debug_cgm": false,
    "debug_metric": false,
    "debug_tail": false,
    "destination": {
        "type": "check",
        "config": {
            "cid": "check id (of existing check)",
            "url": "submission url of existing check",
            "target": "to find|create a check",
            "search_tag": "to find|create a check",
            "instance_id": "to find|create a check"
        }
    },
    "log": {
        "level": "info",
        "pretty": false
    },
    "log_conf_dir": "/opt/circonus/etc/log.d"
}

TOML with an Agent destination (send metrics to local circonus-agent):

app_stat_port = "33284"
debug = false
debug_cgm = false
debug_metric = false
debug_tail = false
log_conf_dir = "/opt/circonus/etc/log.d"

[api]
  key = "circonus api token key"
  app = "circonus-logwatch"
  url = "https://api.circonus.com/v2/"
  ca_file = "path to api ca file, if needed"

[destination]
  type = "agent"

  [destination.config]
    id = "circonus-logwatch"
    port = "2609"

[log]
  level = "info"
  pretty = false

Log Configs

Create one config (JSON, YAML, or TOML) in --log-conf-dir for each distinct log. See examples in the repository.

1. id of the log, short identifier - optional, the base file name will be used if omitted
2. log_file path to the log
3. metrics a list of:
   1. match regular expression to identify lines and optionally extract named subexpressions for value and metric name
   2. name a static string to use as the metric name or a template for naming the metric if named subexpressions were used in match regex
   3. type what type of metric (all numbers are 64bit)
      • c counter int
      • g gauge int or float
      • ms timing (treated as histogram) value can be a float (3.12) or duration (25ms, 3.2s, 1m10s, etc.) durations are converted to milliseconds, floats are assumed to already represent milliseconds
      • h histogram float
      • s set (ala statsd set metrics) unique string to count
      • t text string

NOTE:

• any metric which does not have a type will be treated as a counter.
• any metric which does not have a subexpression named 'Value' (case insensitive) will be treated as a counter.
• named subexpressions can be used in the name template with the following syntax {{.id}} where id is the name given to a named subexpression in the match regex
• metric names will be prefixed with the log id

Manual Build

1. Clone repo (outside of GOPATH) git clone https://github.com/circonus-labs/circonus-logwatch && cd circonus-logwatch
2. Build go build -o circonus-logwatchd
3. Ensure target directories exist mkdir -p /opt/circonus/logwatch/{sbin,etc,etc/log.d}
4. Install cp circonus-logwatchd /opt/circonus/logwatch/sbin