Logging

The possibility to see what is happening or happened at any point in time in an OpenStack cloud, is a key feature to ensure proper operation of the latter. Spinal Stack, with that in mind, provides a robust, scalable and easy way to view all kind of logs on all the machines in the OpenStack cloud platform.

• Logging Stack Components
  • Rsyslog
  • fluentd
  • elasticsearch
  • kibana3
• Workflow
  • Overview
  • Details
• Configuration
  • Puppet
    • logging/agent.pp
    • logging/server.pp
  • Components Configuration
    • puppet-rsyslog
    • puppet-elasticsearch
    • kibana3
  • Hiera
    • agent
      • Scenario 1: The agent export all its log to the log server via rsyslog
      • Scenario 2: The agent export its log using fluentd, rsyslog isn’t configured. Logs are formatted on the agent side
    • server
      • Scenario 1: The log server receives its log from rsyslog and stores them in elasticseach
      • Scenario 2: The log server receives its log from a fluentd forward and stores them in elasticsearch
• Scalability