[syslog-ng] Connect syslog-ng to HDFS

Tue Aug 21 10:48:10 UTC 2018

Hi,

Can you tell ne what is the version of the hadoop lib you use with
syslog-ng, please?

Can you share your syslog-ng configuration, mainly the hdfs part, please?

Regards,
Gabor

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:15 AM Lee Keng Ket <kengket at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Gabor
>
> I have run it, seems like it stops at the HDFS side.
>
> [2018-08-21T10:07:51.212015] Worker thread started; driver='d_hdfs#0'
> [2018-08-21T10:07:51.212499] Running application hooks; hook='1'
> [2018-08-21T10:07:51.212516] Running application hooks; hook='3'
> [2018-08-21T10:07:51.212595] syslog-ng starting up; version='3.14.1'
> [2018-08-21T10:07:51.214113] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:08:01.215622] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:08:11.216050] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:08:21.226340] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:08:31.236589] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:08:41.240623] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:08:51.250879] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:09:01.261172] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:09:11.271410] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:09:21.281685] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:09:31.290765] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:09:41.301098] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:09:51.311362] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:10:01.321152] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:10:11.321818] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:10:21.330114] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:10:31.340413] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:10:41.350654] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:10:51.354016] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:01.364267] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:11.374516] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:21.384761] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:31.395017] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:41.402256] Opening hdfs;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:51.404097] Opening hdfs;
> ^C[2018-08-21T10:11:59.672252] syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.14.1'
> Exception in thread "" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration
>         at org.syslog_ng.hdfs.HdfsDestination.open(HdfsDestination.java:92)
>         at org.syslog_ng.LogDestination.openProxy(LogDestination.java:65)
> [2018-08-21T10:11:59.774895] Worker thread finished; driver='d_hdfs#0'
> [2018-08-21T10:11:59.775384] Closing log transport fd; fd='13'
> [2018-08-21T10:11:59.775508] Deinitialize hdfs destination;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:59.776534] Java machine free;
> [2018-08-21T10:11:59.778421] Running application hooks; hook='4'
>
> Any idea what to be checked further?
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:45 PM Nagy, Gábor <gabor.nagy at oneidentity.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> In the statistics it can be seen that the log message is not sent to the
>> HDFS server:
>> dropped='dst.java(d_hdfs#0 java_dst hdfs hdfs://x.x.x.x:25000
>> /user/syslog/$HOST-$DAY-$MONTH-$YEAR.log)=0'
>> processed='dst.java(d_hdfs#0 java_dst hdfs hdfs://x.x.x.x:25000
>> /user/syslog/$HOST-$DAY-$MONTH-$YEAR.log)=1'
>> queued='dst.java(d_hdfs#0 java_dst hdfs hdfs://x.x.x.x:25000
>> /user/syslog/$HOST-$DAY-$MONTH-$YEAR.log)=1'
>>
>> Well, generally on write error there should be an exception that results
>> in an error message.
>>
>> You should try debugging it either in running syslog-ng in foreground (-F
>> option), forwarding internal logs to stderr (-e) and with debug mode (-dv)
>> on.
>> Or in service mode use the internal() source in your config and connect
>> it to a destination (e.g. file()) which you prefer.
>>
>> You could turn on debug messages on java side too using jvm_options() in
>> syslog-ng config and configuring the log4j logging service, e.g.:
>> options {
>>
>> jvm_options("-Dlog4j.configuration=file:/etc/hadoop/log4j.properties
>> -Dlog4j.debug=true");
>> };
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:34 AM Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng314/ also
>>> writes: "Java is enabled, but JAR dependencies are not provided in package,
>>> except for Elasticsearch http mode." The syslog-ng-java-deps.noarch
>>> contains build time dependencies. Probably I should rename the package to
>>> syslog-ng-java-build-deps...
>>>
>>> Check the documentation at
>>> https://www.syslog-ng.com/technical-documents/doc/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/3.16/administration-guide/33#TOPIC-956506
>>> on how to download and configure HDFS related JAR dependencies.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>>
>>> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
>>> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>>> https://syslog-ng.com/community/
>>> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Lee Keng Ket <kengket at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to connect syslog-ng 3.14.1 to HDFS to store the syslog
>>>> messages. The syslog-ng can start without error, and it's able to write
>>>> into local file. However, the log is not written to the HDFS. As there is
>>>> no single error, I'm not sure how I should troubleshoot on this.
>>>>
>>>> I have installed the syslog-ng from this repo,
>>>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng314/repo/epel-7/czanik-syslog-ng314-epel-7.repo
>>>>
>>>> Installed Packages
>>>> syslog-ng.x86_64
>>>> 3.14.1-4.el7.centos
>>>> @czanik-syslog-ng314
>>>> syslog-ng-java.x86_64
>>>> 3.14.1-4.el7.centos
>>>> @czanik-syslog-ng314
>>>> syslog-ng-java-deps.noarch
>>>> 1.0-2
>>>> @czanik-syslog-ng314
>>>>
>>>> This is the message from /var/log/message:
>>>> Log statistics; processed='src.internal(s_sys#0)=1',
>>>> stamp='src.internal(s_sys#0)=1534491834',
>>>> processed='destination(d_spol)=0', processed='destination(d_mlal)=0',
>>>> processed='center(received)=2', processed='destination(d_mesg)=1',
>>>> processed='destination(d_mail)=0', processed='destination(d_auth)=0',
>>>> processed='destination(d_cron)=0', processed='destination(d_hdfs)=1',
>>>> processed='center(queued)=3', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0',
>>>> processed='source(remote_log)=1',
>>>> dropped='dst.java(d_hdfs#0,java_dst,hdfs,hdfs://x.x.x.x:25000,/user/syslog/$HOST-$DAY-$MONTH-$YEAR.log)=0',
>>>> processed='dst.java(d_hdfs#0,java_dst,hdfs,hdfs://x.x.x.x:25000,/user/syslog/$HOST-$DAY-$MONTH-$YEAR.log)=1',
>>>> queued='dst.java(d_hdfs#0,java_dst,hdfs,hdfs://x.x.x.x:25000,/user/syslog/$HOST-$DAY-$MONTH-$YEAR.log)=1',
>>>> processed='global(payload_reallocs)=0',
>>>> processed='src.journald(journal)=0', stamp='src.journald(journal)=0',
>>>> processed='global(sdata_updates)=0',
>>>> queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0',
>>>> processed='destination(d_boot)=0', processed='destination(d_kern)=0',
>>>> processed='source(s_sys)=1', processed='destination(remote)=1',
>>>> processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0',
>>>> processed='global(msg_clones)=0'
>>>>
>>>> Anyone has any idea how should I proceed the troubleshooting?
>>>>
>>>>
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