Papertrail Formula

This formula configures the Papertrail remote_syslog2 agent. To configure rsyslog for use with Papertrail, check out the Papertrail documentation.

Supported Platforms

• RHEL 6 / CentOS 6
• RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
• Amazon Linux 2017.03
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Debian 9

Usage

Quickstart

1. Set the pillar attributes papertrail.destination_host, papertrail.destination_port, and at least one file/directory in files.

papertrail:
  files:
    - /var/log/syslog
    - /var/log/apache2/*.log
  destination_host: logsN.papertrailapp.com
  destination_port: XXXXX

2. Include papertrail in your state file or top.sls, depending on which ever you prefer.

In a state:

include:
  - papertrail

in top.sls:

base:
  '*':
    - papertrail

This will install remote_syslog2 with the configured settings from Pillar.

Pillar attributes

This Salt formula only has one state, which does all setup and configuration. There are a number of Pillar items you can configure, all of which mirror the configuration items found in the remote_syslog2 README.

• files

  A list of files or patterns to send to Papertrail.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    files:
      - /tmp/test.log
      - /srv/foo.txt
      - /var/log/*.bar
      - path: /srv/foo.txt
        tag: foo_file

• exclude_files

  A list of files or patterns to exclude.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    exclude_files:
      - /tmp/exlude.log
      - /srv/dont-include.log
      - /var/log/skip-me.log

• exclude_patterns:

  A regex of log message patterns to exclude.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    exclude_patterns:
      - \d+ things

• hostname

  Override the default hostname.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    hostname: my-super-awesome-hostname

• destination_host, destination_port, & destination_protocol

  The Papertrail host and port to send logs to, and the protocol to use. These are required. Protocol defaults to tls.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    destination_host: logsN.papertrailapp.com
    destination_port: XXXXX
    destination_protocol: tls

• new_file_check_interval

  Overrides the default file check interval.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    new_file_check_interval: 30

• severity

  Overrides the default remote_syslog2 severity level.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    severity: warn

• facility

  Overrides the default remote_syslog2 facility.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    facility: local7

• version

  Use a different version of remote_syslog than the default. The default is specified in map.jinja.

  Example:

  papertrail:
    version: 0.18

Testing

Unit tests

No unit tests exist at this time.

Integration tests

1. Run kitchen test
2. Take a break--it takes a bit to run the full suite.

The pillar test data is located in test-pillar.yaml.

Testing Amazon Linux

Testing Amazon Linux through test-kitchen requires a bit more setup:

1. Ensure kitchen-ec2 is installed: chef gem install kitchen-ec2
2. Update .kitchen.yml to have the correct AWS key ID you're going to use
3. Set security_group_ids in the driver section to include a security group accessible from your laptop. Not setting this will use the default security group.
4. Set transport.ssh_key to the path of your SSH key. It looks for id_rsa by default.

License and Authors

License: See LICENSE

Author: Mike Julian (@mjulian)