Send Apache Logs to Minio
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This article explains how to use Fluentd to aggregate and transport Apache logs to a Minio server.
The following software/services are required to be set up correctly:
You can install Fluentd via major packaging systems.
If out_s3 (fluent-plugin-s3) is not installed yet, please install it manually.
See Plugin Management section how to install fluent-plugin-s3 on your environment.
In this example, we use the access log file as an input source, so save the following <source> settings to /etc/fluent/fluentd.conf:
<source>
@type tail
format apache2
path /var/log/apache2/access.log
pos_file /var/log/fluent/apache.access.log.pos
tag minio.apache.access
</source>Before proceeding, please confirm that the access log file has proper file permission. If the log file is not readable by the fluent-package/fluentd, the rest of this article will not work.
Now let's add settings for storing the incoming data in your Minio server. Since Minio is compatible with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), we can use the out_s3 plugin to connect to the server.
<match minio.apache.**>
@type s3
aws_key_id ACCESS_KEY # The access key for Minio
aws_sec_key SECRET_KEY # The secret key for Minio
s3_bucket BUCKET_NAME # The bucket to store the log data
s3_endpoint ENDPOINT # The endpoint URL (like "http://localhost:9000/")
s3_region us-east-1 # See the region settings of your Minio server
path logs/ # This prefix is added to each file
time_slice_format %Y%m%d%H%M # This timestamp is added to each file name
<buffer time>
@type file
path /var/log/fluent/s3
timekey 60m # Flush the accumulated chunks every hour
timekey_wait 1m # Wait for 60 seconds before flushing
timekey_use_utc true # Use this option if you prefer UTC timestamps
chunk_limit_size 256m # The maximum size of each chunk
</buffer>
</match>After adding the settings to the conf file, please restart the Fluentd daemon.
Use curl to generate some log data for testing:
$ curl http://localhost/Or you can use the Apache Bench for the bulk request generation:
$ ab -n 100 -c 10 http://localhost/Wait until the data gets flushed from the buffer (you can adjust the flush interval using the timekey and timekey_wait options above). Then you will see the aggregated log data on Minio:
If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know. Fluentd is an open-source project under Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). All components are available under the Apache 2 License.