Graylog2

Graylog2 is an open source log management solution that stores your logs in ElasticSearch.

Clean up DB

http://wiki.hackspherelabs.com/index.php?title=Graylog2#Clean_Out_Graylog2_DB

"Cure" for high CPU usage:

• service graylog2 stop
• cd /opt/elasticsearch-0.19.9/data/graylog2
• rm * -rf
• /opt/mongo/bin/mongo
• use graylog2
• db.message_counts.remove()
• db.hosts.remove()
• exit
• service graylog2 start

Send log from python to graylog2 through GELF

See details in https://pypi.python.org/pypi/graypy

Install with easy_install graypy .

   1 #file name testGelf.py
   2 import logging
   3 import graypy
   4 
   5 my_logger = logging.getLogger('test_logger')
   6 my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
   7 
   8 handler = graypy.GELFHandler('192.168.1.123', 12201)
   9 my_logger.addHandler(handler)
  10 
  11 my_logger.debug('Hello Graylog2.')

On graylog2 the following columns are used:

• From: hostx
• Date: Tue Dec 10 13:14:50 +0000 2013
• Severity: Debug
• Facility: test_logger
• File: testGelf.py:10

• thread_name: MainThread

• function: <module>

• process_name: MainProcess

• pid: 27663