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Send Apache Logs to Mongodb

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This article explains how to use 's MongoDB Output plugin () to aggregate semi-structured logs in realtime.

Background

is an advanced open-source log collector originally developed at . Because Fluentd handles logs as semi-structured data streams, the ideal database should have strong support for semi-structured data. Several candidates meet this criterion, but we believe is the market leader.

MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented database developed at . It is schema-free and uses a JSON-like format to manage semi-structured data.

This article will show you how to use to import Apache logs into MongoDB.

Mechanism

The figure below shows how things will work:

Fluentd does these three (3) things:

  1. It continuously "tails" the access log file.

  2. It parses the incoming log entries into meaningful fields (such as ip,

    path, etc.) and buffers them.

  3. It writes the buffered data to MongoDB periodically.

Prerequisites

The following software/services are required to be set up correctly:

For simplicity, this article will describe how to set up a one-node configuration. Please install the above prerequisites software/services on the same node.

You can install Fluentd via major packaging systems.

For MongoDB, please refer to the following downloads page:

Install MongoDB Plugin

Configuration

Let's start configuring Fluentd. If you used the deb/rpm package, Fluentd's config file is located at /etc/fluent/fluentd.conf.

Tail Input

For the input source, we will set up Fluentd to track the recent Apache logs (typically found at /var/log/apache2/access_log). The Fluentd configuration file should look like this:

<source>
  @type tail
  path /var/log/apache2/access_log
  pos_file /var/log/fluent/apache2.access_log.pos
  <parse>
    @type apache2
  </parse>
  tag mongo.apache.access
</source>

Let's go through the configuration line by line:

  1. @type tail: The tail Input plugin continuously tracks the log

    file. This handy plugin is included in Fluentd's core.

  2. @type apache2 in <parse>: Uses Fluentd's built-in Apache log parser.

  3. path /var/log/apache2/access_log: The location of the Apache log.

    This may be different for your particular system.

  4. tag mongo.apache.access: mongo.apache.access is used as the tag to route

    the messages within Fluentd.

That's it! You should now be able to output a JSON-formatted data stream for Fluentd to process.

MongoDB Output

The output destination will be MongoDB. The output configuration should look like this:

<match mongo.**>
  # plugin type
  @type mongo

  # mongodb db + collection
  database apache
  collection access

  # mongodb host + port
  host localhost
  port 27017

  # interval
  <buffer>
    flush_interval 10s
  </buffer>

  # make sure to include the time key
  <inject>
    time_key time
  </inject>
</match>

The match section specifies the regexp used to look for matching tags. If a matching tag is found in a log, then the config inside <match>...</match> is used (i.e. the log is routed according to the config inside). In this example, the mongo.apache.access tag (generated by tail) is always used.

The ** in mongo.** matches zero or more period-delimited tag parts (e.g. mongo/mongo.a/mongo.a.b).

flush_interval specifies how often the data is written to MongoDB. The other options specify MongoDB's host, port, db, and collection.

Test

To test the configuration, just ping the Apache server. This example uses the ab (Apache Bench) program:

$ ab -n 100 -c 10 http://localhost/

Then, access MongoDB and see the stored data:

$ mongo
> use apache
> db["access"].findOne();
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4ed1ed3a340765ce73000001"), "host" : "127.0.0.1", "user" : "-", "method" : "GET", "path" : "/", "code" : "200", "size" : "44", "time" : ISODate("2011-11-27T07:56:27Z") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4ed1ed3a340765ce73000002"), "host" : "127.0.0.1", "user" : "-", "method" : "GET", "path" : "/", "code" : "200", "size" : "44", "time" : ISODate("2011-11-27T07:56:34Z") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4ed1ed3a340765ce73000003"), "host" : "127.0.0.1", "user" : "-", "method" : "GET", "path" : "/", "code" : "200", "size" : "44", "time" : ISODate("2011-11-27T07:56:34Z") }

Conclusion

Fluentd + MongoDB makes real-time log collection simple, easy, and robust.

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(with the Combined Log Format)

If (fluent-plugin-mongo) is not installed yet, please install it manually.

See section how to install fluent-plugin-mongo on your environment.

Please make sure that your Apache outputs are in the default combined format. format apache2 cannot parse custom log formats. Please see the article for more details.

For additional configuration parameters, please see the article. If you are using ReplicaSet, please see the article.

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please . is an open-source project under . All components are available under the Apache 2 License.

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