dlzp3014 / graylog-logstash-tcp-output

Plugin for Graylog to forward messages to Logstash TCP Input

Graylog TcpLogstashOutput Plugin

This plugin is meant to forward log messages to the tcp input of logstash.

input {
  tcp {
    port => "12300"
    codec => "json"
    data_timeout => -1
  }
}
output {
  file {
    codec => "json_lines"
    path => "archive.log"
  }
}

Getting started

This project is using Maven 3 and requires Java 7 or higher. The plugin will require Graylog 1.0.0 or higher.

• Clone this repository.
• Run mvn package to build a JAR file.
• Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
• Restart the Graylog.

Configuration

Graylog Configuration

Take a look at the folowing properties in graylog.conf and increase them if neccessary

• processbuffer_processors
• outputbuffer_processors
• outputbuffer_processor_keep_alive_time
• outputbuffer_processor_threads_core_pool_size
• outputbuffer_processor_threads_max_pool_size

Plugin Configuration

• host: target host
• port: target port
• workers: number of workers to be available (corresponding to outputbuffer_processors)