fluent-plugin-sumologic_output, a plugin for Fluentd

This plugin has been designed to output logs or metrics to SumoLogic via a HTTP collector endpoint

TLS Deprecation Notice
In keeping with industry standard security best practices, as of May 31, 2018, the Sumo Logic service will only support TLS version 1.2 going forward. Verify that all connections to Sumo Logic endpoints are made from software that supports TLS 1.2.

Support

The code in this repository has been developed in collaboration with the Sumo Logic community and is not supported via standard Sumo Logic Support channels. For any issues or questions please submit an issue directly on GitHub. The maintainers of this project will work directly with the community to answer any questions, address bugs, or review any requests for new features.

License

Released under Apache 2.0 License.

Installation

gem install fluent-plugin-sumologic_output

Configuration

Configuration options for fluent.conf are:

• data_type - The type of data that will be sent to Sumo Logic, either logs or metrics (Default is logs)
• endpoint - SumoLogic HTTP Collector URL
• verify_ssl - Verify ssl certificate. (default is true)
• source_category - Set _sourceCategory metadata field within SumoLogic (default is nil)
• source_name - Set _sourceName metadata field within SumoLogic - overrides source_name_key (default is nil)
• source_name_key - Set as source::path_key's value so that the source_name can be extracted from Fluentd's buffer (default source_name)
• source_host - Set _sourceHost metadata field within SumoLogic (default is nil)
• log_format - Format to post logs into Sumo. (default json)
  • text - Logs will appear in SumoLogic in text format (taken from the field specified in log_key)
  • json - Logs will appear in SumoLogic in json format.
  • json_merge - Same as json but merge content of log_key into the top level and strip log_key
• log_key - Used to specify the key when merging json or sending logs in text format (default message)
• open_timeout - Set timeout seconds to wait until connection is opened.
• add_timestamp - Add timestamp field to logs before sending to sumologic (default true)
• proxy_uri - Add the uri of the proxy environment if present.
• metric_data_format - The format of metrics you will be sending, either graphite or carbon2 (Default is graphite)

Example Configuration

Reading from the JSON formatted log files with in_tail and wildcard filenames:

<source>
  @type tail
  format json
  time_key time
  path /path/to/*.log
  pos_file /path/to/pos/ggcp-app.log.pos
  time_format Y-m-dT%H:%M:%S.%NZ
  tag appa.*
  read_from_head false
</source>

<match appa.**>
 @type sumologic
 endpoint https://collectors.sumologic.com/receiver/v1/http/XXXXXXXXXX
 log_format json
 source_category prod/someapp/logs
 source_name AppA
 open_timeout 10
</match>

Sending metrics to Sumo Logic using in_http:

<source>
  @type http
  port 8888
  bind 0.0.0.0
</source>

<match test.carbon2>
    @type sumologic
    endpoint https://endpoint3.collection.us2.sumologic.com/receiver/v1/http/ZaVnC4dhaV1hYfCAiqSH-PDY6gUOIgZvO60U_-y8SPQfK0Ks-ht7owrbk1AkX_ACp0uUxuLZOCw5QjBg1ndVPZ5TOJCFgNGRtFDoTDuQ2hzs3sn6FlfBSw==
    data_type metrics
    metric_data_format carbon2
    flush_interval 1s
</match>

<match test.graphite>
    @type sumologic
    endpoint https://endpoint3.collection.us2.sumologic.com/receiver/v1/http/ZaVnC4dhaV1hYfCAiqSH-PDY6gUOIgZvO60U_-y8SPQfK0Ks-ht7owrbk1AkX_ACp0uUxuLZOCw5QjBg1ndVPZ5TOJCFgNGRtFDoTDuQ2hzs3sn6FlfBSw==
    data_type metrics
    metric_data_format graphite
    flush_interval 1s
</match>

Example input/output

Assuming following inputs are coming from a log file named /var/log/appa_webserver.log

{"asctime": "2016-12-10 03:56:35+0000", "levelname": "INFO", "name": "appa", "funcName": "do_something", "lineno": 29, "message": "processing something", "source_ip": "123.123.123.123"}

Then output becomes as below within SumoLogic

{
    "timestamp":1481343785000,
    "asctime":"2016-12-10 03:56:35+0000",
    "levelname":"INFO",
    "name":"appa",
    "funcName":"do_something",
    "lineno":29,
    "message":"processing something",
    "source_ip":"123.123.123.123"
}

Dynamic Configuration within log message

The plugin supports overriding SumoLogic metadata and log_format parameters within each log message by attaching the field _sumo_metadata to the log message.

NOTE: The _sumo_metadata field will be stripped before posting to SumoLogic.

Example

{
  "name": "appa",
  "source_ip": "123.123.123.123",
  "funcName": "do_something",
  "lineno": 29,
  "asctime": "2016-12-10 03:56:35+0000",
  "message": "processing something",
  "_sumo_metadata": {
    "category": "new_sourceCategory",
    "source": "override_sourceName",
    "host": "new_sourceHost",
    "log_format": "merge_json_log"
  },
  "levelname": "INFO"
}