[syslog-ng] ELK herd to scale

Scheidler, Balázs balazs.scheidler at balabit.com
Wed Apr 20 20:13:48 CEST 2016


Can you pls point me to the direction of the logstash material you
mentioned? I would be interested in them whether it'd be possible to port
them over.
On Apr 20, 2016 7:00 PM, "Scot Needy" <scotrn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some thoughts on my deployment
>
> *Logstash*
> 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.
> VMware, ASA for example but wanted more real time data. I could probably
> do the realtime tags with pattendb.
>
> *syslog-ng counters*
> 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..
>
>
> @include IPAM-filters
> filter f_192_168_252_0 { netmask(192.168.252.0/24);};
> filter f_192_168_253_0 { netmask(192.168.253.0/24);};
> filter f_192_168_254_0 { netmask(192.168.254.0/30);};
>
>
> @include IPAM-dest.conf
> destination d_192_168_252_0 {
> file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_252_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};
> destination d_192_168_253_0 {
> file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_253_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};
> destination d_192_168_254_0 {
> file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_254_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};
>
> @include IPAM-log.conf
> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_252_0);
> destination(d_192_168_252_0);};
> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_253_0);
> destination(d_192_168_253_0);};
> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_254_0);
> destination(d_192_168_254_0);};
> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_254_4);
> destination(d_192_168_254_4);};
>
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Scot Needy <scotrn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>  Does anyone have links or care to share notes on making a syslog-ng ->
> ELK  scale for enterprise ?
>
> 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.
> There are many ELK specific references but I also want to make sure the
> model fits the syslog workload.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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