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Coralogix provides seamless integration with Fluent-Bit so you can send your logs from anywhere and parse them according to your needs.

Prerequisites

This document includes cluster dependent URL’s. Each URL has a variable part (in Italic). Please match this part with a row entry within the following table. Copy the table row entry located under the column that matches the top level domain of your Coralogix account (.com, .in etc.). Replace the variable part of the URL with this entry.

	.com	.us	.in
Elasticsearch-API	https://coralogix-esapi.coralogix.com:9443	https://esapi.coralogix.us:9443	https://es-api.app.coralogix.in:9443
SSL Certificates	https://coralogix-public.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/certificate/Coralogix-EU.crt	https://www.amazontrust.com/repository/AmazonRootCA1.pem	https://coralogix-public.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/certificate/Coralogix-IN .pem
	coralogix.com	coralogix.us	app.coralogix.in

Have Fluent-Bit installed, for more information on how to implement: Fluent-Bit installation docs.
Have Coralogix output plugin installed.

Usage

You must provide the following four variables when creating a Coralogix logger instance.

Private Key – A unique ID that represents your company. The private key can be found under ‘settings’->’ send your logs’. It is located in the upper left corner.

Application Name – The name of your main application, for example, a company named “SuperData” would probably insert the “SuperData” string parameter or if they want to debug their test environment they might insert the “SuperData– Test”.

SubSystem Name – Your application probably has multiple subsystems, for example, Backend servers, Middleware, Frontend servers, etc. in order to help you examine the data you need, inserting the subsystem parameter is vital.

Installation

$ wget -o /fluent-bit/plugins/out_coralogix.so https://github.com/coralogix/integrations-docs/raw/master/integrations/fluent-bit/plugin/out_coralogix.so

Configuration

Common

Open your Fluent-Bit configuration file and add Coralogix output:

[SERVICE]
    # setting location for Coralogix plugin
    Plugins_File plugins.conf

[INPUT]
    Name mem
    Tag memory

[OUTPUT]
    Name        coralogix
    Match       *
    Private_Key YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY
    Company_id  YOUR_COMPANY_ID
    App_Name    APP_NAME
    Sub_Name    SUB_NAME

The first four keys (Private_key, Company_id, App_name, Sub_name) are mandatory.

Please add one the lines from the table below to the configuration based on your account url to the [output] section of the fluent-bit configuration file. This will help point your logs to the correct end point.

Account Url Ending with .us	Account Url Ending with .com	Account Url Ending with .in
Endpoint api.coralogix.us	Endpoint api.coralogix.com	Endpoint api.app.coralogix.in

Application and subsystem name

If you wish to set your application and subsystem names to a fixed value, in your config file use App_Name and Sub_Name as described above. In case your input stream is a JSON object, you can extract APP_NAME and/or SUB_NAME from the JSON using the App_Name_Key and Sub_Name_Key options in your config file instead of App_Name and Sub_Name:

App_Name_Key APP_NAME_KEY
Sub_Name_Key SUB_NAME_KEY

For instance, with the bellow JSON App_Name_Key application will extract “testApp“ into Coralogix applicationName.

{
    "application": "testApp",
    "subsystem": "testSub",
    "code": "200",
    "stream": "stdout",
    "timestamp": "2016-07-20T17:05:17.743Z",
    "message": "hello_world",
}

*Note – nested JSONs are also supported so you can extract into App_Name_Key and/or Sub_Name_Key nested values, e.g. App_Name_Key log.application.

Record content

In case your input stream is a JSON object and you don’t want to send the entire JSON, rather just a portion of it, you can add the Log_Key parameter, in your Fluent-Bit configuration file–>output section, with the name of the key you want to send. For instance, with the above example, if you write:

Log_Key message

then only the key message will be sent. If you do want to send the entire JSON then you can just delete this parameter from your configuration file.

Timestamp

If you want to use some field as timestamp in Coralogix, you can use Time_Key option:

Time_Key timestamp

then you will see that logs records have timestamp from this field.

Note: We accept only logs that are not older than 24 hours.

Run

On host machine

If your Coralogix account top level domain is different than ‘.com’ set the following environment variable

CORALOGIX_LOG_URL=https://api.Cluster URL.in/logs/rest/singles

To start Fluent-Bit with Coralogix output plugin, execute:

$ fluent-bit -e /fluent-bit/plugins/out_coralogix.so -c /fluent-bit/etc/fluent-bit.conf

or add Coralogix output plugin to /fluent-bit/etc/plugins.conf file:

[PLUGINS]
    Path /fluent-bit/plugins/out_coralogix.so

Docker

Build a Docker image with your fluent-bit.conf:

If your Coralogix account top level domain is different than ‘.com’ set the following environment variable

CORALOGIX_LOG_URL=https://api.Cluster URL.in/logs/rest/singles

FROM golang:alpine AS builder
RUN apk add --no-cache gcc libc-dev git
WORKDIR /go/src/app
RUN wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluent/fluent-bit/master/conf/plugins.conf && \
    echo "    Path /fluent-bit/plugins/out_coralogix.so" | tee -a plugins.conf
RUN wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coralogix/integrations-docs/master/integrations/fluent-bit/plugin/out_coralogix.go && \
    go get . && \
    go build -buildmode=c-shared -o out_coralogix.so .


FROM fluent/fluent-bit:1.4
MAINTAINER Coralogix Inc. <info@coralogix.com>
LABEL Description="Special Fluent-Bit image for Coralogix integration" Vendor="Coralogix Inc." Version="1.0.0"
COPY --from=builder /lib/libc.musl-x86_64.so* /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
COPY --from=builder /go/src/app/out_coralogix.so /fluent-bit/plugins/
COPY --from=builder /go/src/app/plugins.conf /fluent-bit/etc/
COPY fluent-bit.conf /fluent-bit/etc/

Before deploying your container don’t forget to mount volume with your logs.

Development

Requirements

Linux x64
Go version >= 1.11.x

Sources

You can download sources here.

Build

$ cd plugin/
$ make

Auto-mapping support

In case your raw log message is a JSON object containing fields with information such as geographic location (lat, lon), DateTime, or Ip address, you may change and add a specific suffix (see followed examples) to the key name using a filter in your configuration (or by using Coralogix parsing rules) so the same field will be automatically mapped as geo-point, date, IP respectively. As a result, you will be able to create a geo-location map visualization, use your log timestamp as the timestamp in range queries, and with Kibana visualization and query IP addresses using the CIDR notation.

E.g. Geographic location

Original log

{
  ...
  "text": "Geo-point data",
  "location": { 
    "lat": 41.12,
    "lon": -71.34
  }
  ...
}

Adding _geopoint suffix to the location object name

{
  ...
  "text": "Geo-point data",
  "location_geopoint": { 
    "lat": 41.12,
    "lon": -71.34
  },
  ...
}

E.g. DateTime

Original log

{
  ...
  "time": "2020-10-13T09:45:33.783441Z",
  ...
}

Adding _custom_timestamp suffix to the time key name

{
 ... 
 "time_custom_timestamp": "2020-10-13T09:45:33.783441Z",
 ... 
}

Note that the time format must be date_optional_time or strict_date_optional_time.

E.g. Ip

Original log

{
  ...
  "ip_addr": "192.168.1.1",
  ...
}

Adding _ipaddr suffix to the location object name

{
  ...
  "ip_addr_ipaddr": "192.168.1.1",
  ...
}