[syslog-ng] Connect syslog-ng to HDFS

Lee Keng Ket kengket at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 01:47:07 UTC 2018


Hi, Janos

Thanks for your reminder. The directory is correct, but I realize the jar
files inside the lib is read-only. After I change it to executable, the
error messages are different, no longer hang at opening HDFS.

Thank you.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:08 PM SZIGETVÁRI János <jszigetvari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I remember seeing this very error message, when syslog-ng was not able to
> find the hdfs libraries at the directories I specified as client-lib-dir().
> Then I realized, my directory was called "libs", and syslog-ng was looking
> for them under "lib".
>
> Regards,
> János
>
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> Nagy, Gábor <gabor.nagy at oneidentity.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. aug.
> 21., K, 12:48):
>
>> 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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>>>>>>
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