Graylog Collector is a lightweight Java application that allows you to forward data from log files to a Graylog cluster. The collector can read local log files and also Windows Events natively, it then can forward the log messages over the network using the GELF format.
⚠️ The Graylog Collector Sidecar is deprecated and can be replaced with Graylog Sidecar
Required Graylog version: 2.0 and later
Download the plugin
and place the .jar file in your Graylog plugin directory. The plugin directory
is the plugins/ folder relative from your graylog-server directory by default
and can be configured in your graylog.conf file.
Restart graylog-server and you are done.
You can improve your development experience for the web interface part of your plugin dramatically by making use of hot reloading. To do this, do the following:
git clone https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server.gitcd graylog2-server/graylog2-web-interfaceln -s $YOURPLUGIN plugin/npm install && npm start
Please refer to the Documentation.
This project is using Maven 3 and requires Java 7 or higher.
- Clone this repository.
- Run
mvn packageto build a JAR file. - Optional: Run
mvn jdeb:jdebandmvn rpm:rpmto create a DEB and RPM package respectively. - Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
- Restart the Graylog.
We are using the maven release plugin:
$ mvn release:prepare
[...]
$ mvn release:perform
This sets the version numbers, creates a tag and pushes to GitHub. Travis CI will build the release artifacts and upload to GitHub automatically.