Ansible role: Logstash

Install and configure logstash

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.9
• Debian
  • Bookworm

Role variables

• logstash_major_version set major version to install- (default: 7)
• logstash_plugins - array with the plugins to install

  - name: logstash-output-influxdb
    state: present

• logstash_config - hash with the configuration (see logstash documentation)

  path.data: /var/lib/logstash
  path.logs: /var/log/logstash

• logstash_inputs - hash with the inputs configurations

  file:
    path: /var/log/syslog
  beats:
    port: 5444

• logstash_outputs - array with the outputs configuration

  - >
    file {
      path => "/var/log/syslog"
      codec => "json"
    }

• logstash_filters - array with the filters configuration

  - >
    grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{IP:client} %{WORD:method} %{URIPATHPARAM:request} %{NUMBER:bytes} %{NUMBER:duration}" }
    }

• logstash_pattern - hash with grok patterns

  postfix: |
    # Syslog stuff
    PROCESS ([\w._\/%-]+)
    COMPID postfix\/%{PROCESS:process}(?:\[%{NUMBER:pid}\])?
    POSTFIX (?:%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:timestamp}|%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp8601}) (?:%{SYSLOGFACILITY} )?%{SYSLOGHOST:logsource} %{COMPID}:

• logstash_logging_config - hash with logging config (log4j2)

  status: "error"
  name: "LogstashPropertiesConfig"
  appender.rolling.type: "RollingFile"
  appender.rolling.name: "plain_rolling"
  appender.rolling.fileName: "${sys:ls.logs}/logstash-plain.log"
  appender.rolling.filePattern: "${sys:ls.logs}/logstash-plain-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log.gz"
  appender.rolling.policies.type: "Policies"
  appender.rolling.policies.time.type: "TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy"
  appender.rolling.policies.time.interval: "1"
  appender.rolling.policies.time.modulate: true
  appender.rolling.layout.type: "PatternLayout"
  appender.rolling.layout.pattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c]%notEmpty{[%X{pipeline.id}]}%notEmpty{[%X{plugin.id}]} %m%n"
  appender.rolling.policies.size.type: "SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy"
  appender.rolling.policies.size.size: "100MB"
  appender.rolling.strategy.type: "DefaultRolloverStrategy"
  appender.rolling.strategy.max: 30
  appender.rolling.avoid_pipelined_filter.type: "PipelineRoutingFilter"
  appender.routing.type: "PipelineRouting"
  appender.routing.name: "pipeline_routing_appender"
  appender.routing.pipeline.type: "RollingFile"
  appender.routing.pipeline.name: "appender-${ctx:pipeline.id}"
  appender.routing.pipeline.fileName: "${sys:ls.logs}/pipeline_${ctx:pipeline.id}.log"
  appender.routing.pipeline.filePattern: "${sys:ls.logs}/pipeline_${ctx:pipeline.id}.%i.log.gz"
  appender.routing.pipeline.layout.type: "PatternLayout"
  appender.routing.pipeline.layout.pattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
  appender.routing.pipeline.policy.type: "SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy"
  appender.routing.pipeline.policy.size: "100MB"
  appender.routing.pipeline.strategy.type: "DefaultRolloverStrategy"
  appender.routing.pipeline.strategy.max: 30
  rootLogger.level: "${sys:ls.log.level}"
  rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref: "${sys:ls.log.format}_rolling"
  rootLogger.appenderRef.routing.ref: "pipeline_routing_appender"

How to use

- hosts: server
  roles:
    - logstash

Development

Test with molecule and docker

• install docker
• install python3 and python3-pip
• install molecule and dependencies pip3 install molecule molecule-docker docker ansible-lint pytest-testinfra yamllint
• run molecule test

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Adrien Waksberg

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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