Recipe Apache Logs To Mongo
Looking to get data out of apache logs into mongo? You can do that with fluentd in 10 minutes!
Here is how:
$ gem install fluentd$ gem install fluent-plugin-mongo$ touch fluentd.conf
fluentd.conf should look like this (just copy and paste this into fluentd.conf):
<source>@type tailpath /var/log/httpd-access.log #...or where you placed your Apache access logpos_file /var/log/td-agent/httpd-access.log.pos # This is where you record file positiontag apache.access #fluentd tag!format apache2 # Do you have a custom format? You can write your own regex.</source>​<match **>@type mongodatabase <db name> #(required)collection <collection name> #(optional; default="untagged")host <hostname> #(optional; default="localhost")port <port> #(optional; default=27017)</match>
After that, you can start fluentd and everything should work:
$ fluentd -c fluentd.conf
Of course, this is just a quick example. If you are thinking of running fluentd in production, consider using td-agent, the enterprise version of Fluentd packaged and maintained by Treasure Data, Inc..
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