openstack-helm-infra/fluent-logging
Steve Wilkerson 5c4e77d816 Fluent-logging: Add input and output for qemu logs
This adds an input to Fluentbit for capturing all qemu instance
logs in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/, and adds an Elasticsearch output
for those entries

Change-Id: I0802023f9861a5944e7989fd5469133c325349e7
2019-01-02 15:29:03 -06:00
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templates Gates: Update fluent-logging/elasticsearch configurations 2018-10-19 17:30:08 +00:00
Chart.yaml Fluent-logging helm chart 2017-12-15 10:52:16 -06:00
README.rst Remove the duplicated word 2018-06-10 19:04:54 -04:00
requirements.yaml fluent-logging: yaml indentation fixes 2018-05-11 08:48:21 +00:00
values.yaml Fluent-logging: Add input and output for qemu logs 2019-01-02 15:29:03 -06:00

Fluentd-logging

OpenStack-Helm defines a centralized logging mechanism to provide insight into the state of the OpenStack services and infrastructure components as well as underlying kubernetes platform. Among the requirements for a logging platform, where log data can come from and where log data need to be delivered are very variable. To support various logging scenarios, OpenStack-Helm should provide a flexible mechanism to meet with certain operation needs. This chart proposes fast and lightweight log forwarder and full featured log aggregator complementing each other providing a flexible and reliable solution. Especially, Fluent-bit is proposed as a log forwarder and Fluentd is proposed as a main log aggregator and processor.

Mechanism

Fluent-bit, Fluentd meet OpenStack-Helm's logging requirements for gathering, aggregating, and delivering of logged events. Flunt-bit runs as a daemonset on each node and mounts the /var/lib/docker/containers directory. The Docker container runtime engine directs events posted to stdout and stderr to this directory on the host. Fluent-bit then forward the contents of that directory to Fluentd. Fluentd runs as deployment at the designated nodes and expose service for Fluent-bit to foward logs. Fluentd should then apply the Logstash format to the logs. Fluentd can also write kubernetes and OpenStack metadata to the logs. Fluentd will then forward the results to Elasticsearch and to optionally kafka. Elasticsearch indexes the logs in a logstash-* index by default. kafka stores the logs in a 'logs' topic by default. Any external tool can then consume the 'logs' topic.