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Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
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Syslog plugin not working #5172

Closed disha1104 closed 5 years ago

disha1104 commented 5 years ago

Relevant telegraf.conf:

[[inputs.syslog]]
# ##Specify an ip or hostname with port - eg., tcp://localhost:6514, tcp://10.0.0.1:6514
# ##Protocol, address and port to host the syslog receiver.
# ##If no host is specified, then localhost is used.
# ##If no port is specified, 6514 is used (RFC5425#section-4.1).
   server = "tcp://localhost:6514"

System info:

telegraf: 1.9.1 [Include Telegraf version, operating system name, and other relevant details]

Steps to reproduce:

Install the latest Telegraf build

Followed the documentation

Restart Telegraf after editing the config and wait for the data, tail the telegraf logs

Expected behavior:

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/get-your-syslog-on/ Influx should show "syslog" as the new measurement

Actual behavior:

Nothing is getting updated in influx and no logs in chronograf

Additional info:

I tried removing one of the plugin, but still influx was showing measurement for that. Am I missing something in the configuration. Also, wanted to understand the communication between telegraf and influx. [Include gist of relevant config, logs, etc.]

danielnelson commented 5 years ago

You will need to setup syslog delivery to Telegraf too, the most common way to do this is using rsyslog, but I suggest sending a message directly first to verify the Telegraf plugin is setup correctly.

If you have further questions it would be best to ask over at the InfluxData Community site.

disha1104 commented 5 years ago

I followed this documentation, but I am really not sure how to setup syslog delivery on K8s platform. I am using the TICK stack with Kubernetes architecture. Is there any documentation around that?