Amazon RDS (for MySQL) input plugin for Fluentd

Overview

• Amazon Web Services RDS(MySQL) general_log and slow_log input plugin.
  

Installation

$ fluent-gem install fluent-plugin-rds-log

Maybe, you also need the following packages

• MySQL-shared
• MySQL-shared-compat
• MySQL-devel

RDS Setting

Working with MySQL Database Log Files / aws documentation

• Set the log_output parameter to TABLE to write the logs to a database table.
• Set the slow_query_log parameter to 1
• Set the general_log parameter to 1
• setting min_examined_row_limit
• setting long_query_time

Configuration

<source>
  type rds_log
  log_type <slow_log | general_log>
  host <RDS Hostname1>,<RDS Hostname2>,<RDS Hostname3>.. # multiple database servers(comma separated)
  username <RDS Username>
  password <RDS Password>
  refresh_interval <number>
  auto_reconnect <true|false>
  tag <tag-name>
  add_host false # add database hostname in record
</source>

Example GET RDS general_log

<source>
  type rds_log
  log_type general_log
  host endpoint.abcdefghijkl.ap-northeast-1.rds.amazonaws.com
  username rds_user
  password rds_password
  refresh_interval 30
  auto_reconnect true
  tag rds-general-log
  add_host false # add database hostname in record
</source>

<match rds-general-log>
  type file
  path /var/log/rds-general-log
</match>