Ship Apache logs

Setup

Configuration tl;dr

Item	Description
Files	Sample configuration Logz.io public certificate
Listener	Port 5015. For help finding your region’s listener host, see Account region.
Default log locations	Ubuntu, Debian: /var/log/apache2/access.log RHEL, CentOS, Fedora: /var/log/httpd/access_log
Log type (for preconfigured parsing)	apache, apache_access, or apache-access

Guided configuration

Before you begin, you’ll need:

• Filebeat 7 or Filebeat 6 installed
• Root access

Download the Logz.io public certificate

For HTTPS shipping, download the Logz.io public certificate to your certificate authority folder.

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/logzio/public-certificates/master/AAACertificateServices.crt --create-dirs -o /etc/pki/tls/certs/COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt

Add Apache as an input

In the Filebeat configuration file (/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml), add Apache to the filebeat.inputs section.

Replace <<SHIPPING-TOKEN>> with the token of the account you want to ship to.

# ...
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log

  paths:
  # Ubuntu, Debian: `/var/log/apache2/access.log`
  #  RHEL, CentOS, Fedora: `/var/log/httpd/access_log`
  - /var/log/apache2/access.log

  fields:
    logzio_codec: plain

    # Your Logz.io account token. You can find your token at
    #  https://app.logz.io/#/dashboard/settings/manage-accounts
    token: <<SHIPPING-TOKEN>>
    type: apache_access
  fields_under_root: true
  encoding: utf-8
  ignore_older: 3h

- type: log

  paths:
  # Ubuntu, Debian: `/var/log/apache2/error.log`
  #  RHEL, CentOS, Fedora: `/var/log/httpd/error_log`
  - /var/log/apache2/error.log

  fields:
    logzio_codec: plain

    # Your Logz.io account token. You can find your token at
    #  https://app.logz.io/#/dashboard/settings/manage-accounts
    token: <<SHIPPING-TOKEN>>
    type: apache_error
  fields_under_root: true
  encoding: utf-8
  ignore_older: 3h

If you’re running Filebeat 7, paste this code block. Otherwise, you can leave it out.

# ... For Filebeat 7 only ...
filebeat.registry.path: /var/lib/filebeat
processors:
- rename:
    fields:
    - from: "agent"
      to: "filebeat_agent"
    ignore_missing: true
- rename:
    fields:
    - from: "log.file.path"
      to: "source"
    ignore_missing: true

If you’re running Filebeat 6, paste this code block.

# ... For Filebeat 6 only ...
registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry

Set Logz.io as the output

If Logz.io is not an output, add it now. Remove all other outputs.

Replace <<LISTENER-HOST>> with your region’s listener host (for example, listener.logz.io). For more information on finding your account’s region, see Account region.

# ...
output.logstash:
  hosts: ["<<LISTENER-HOST>>:5015"]
  ssl:
    certificate_authorities: ['/etc/pki/tls/certs/COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt']

Start Filebeat

Start or restart Filebeat for the changes to take effect.

Check Logz.io for your logs

Confirm you’re shipping logs by opening an Apache-hosted webpage in your browser. Give your logs some time to get from your system to ours, and then open Kibana.

If you still don’t see your logs, see log shipping troubleshooting.