<div dir="ltr">We used rsyslog to receive from all networking devices, and rsyslog<->rsyslog for systems. then I did some addtional processing of the logs for realtime alerting and shove them into ES with logstash. They all complement each other. Then you just need to stand up 1 log collection (in your case syslog-ng) server in each physical datacenter, and use logstash to parse the logs, and lumberjack to send them out to some central ES stack.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Scot Needy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scotrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">scotrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>That seems to be the way most people are doing it but I think in absence of syslog-ng not in place of it. </div><div>But I don’t like the idea of waiting every XX minutes to see my ASA logs. </div><div><br></div><div>My understanding is the Logstash part of the ELK stack is not required if you use the syslog-ng Elasticsearch plugin. </div><div>pro Realtime data </div><div>pro No additional hop for your data. </div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 20, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Orangepeel Beef <<a href="mailto:orangepeelbeef@gmail.com" target="_blank">orangepeelbeef@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">They way I always liked doing it was to send all the logs via syslog regularly to your central collection server and use logstash file input to parse them in and shove into ES.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Orangepeel Beef <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orangepeelbeef@gmail.com" target="_blank">orangepeelbeef@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">logstash-* index is for logs that have been ingested via logstash of course :) <div><br></div><div>every component of ELK scales horizontally extremely well. </div></div><div><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 20, 2016 7:00 PM, "Scot Needy" <<a href="mailto:scotrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">scotrn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Some thoughts on my deployment</div><div><br></div><div><b>Logstash</b></div><div>I think I’m going to need to re-introduce logstash just to leverage the existing open source material of logstash filters and Kibana desktops. </div><div>VMware, ASA for example but wanted more real time data. I could probably do the realtime tags with pattendb. </div><div> </div><div><b>syslog-ng counters</b> </div><div>We use an IPAM API to create unique filters, log and destination conf files. The goal was to get unique syslog counters for every VLAN realtime directly from syslog-ng-ctl stats.. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>@include IPAM-filters</div><div><div>filter f_192_168_252_0 { netmask(<a href="http://192.168.252.0/24);" target="_blank">192.168.252.0/24);</a>};</div><div>filter f_192_168_253_0 { netmask(<a href="http://192.168.253.0/24);" target="_blank">192.168.253.0/24);</a>};</div><div>filter f_192_168_254_0 { netmask(<a href="http://192.168.254.0/30);" target="_blank">192.168.254.0/30);</a>};</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>@include IPAM-dest.conf</div><div><div>destination d_192_168_252_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_252_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};</div><div>destination d_192_168_253_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_253_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};</div><div>destination d_192_168_254_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_254_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};</div></div><div><br></div><div>@include IPAM-log.conf</div><div><div>log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_252_0); destination(d_192_168_252_0);};</div><div>log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_253_0); destination(d_192_168_253_0);};</div><div>log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_254_0); destination(d_192_168_254_0);};</div><div>log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_254_4); destination(d_192_168_254_4);};</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 20, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Scot Needy <<a href="mailto:scotrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">scotrn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><br><br>Hi, <br><br> Does anyone have links or care to share notes on making a syslog-ng -> ELK scale for enterprise ? <br><br>I have some ideas and will gladly share my solution but also don’t want to spend days figuring these things out that have already been built. <br>There are many ELK specific references but I also want to make sure the model fits the syslog workload. <br><br><br>Thanks <br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br>______________________________________________________________________________<br>
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