Riak Destination

Documentation

##Prerequisites

• Erlang http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/building/installing/erlang/
• Riak http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/downloads/
• Google Protocol Buffers https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/downloads
• Protobuf-c https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c
• flex
• bison
• gcc
• glib
• eventlog

##Getting Started *

• git clone https://github.com/hTrap/syslog-ng.git --branch f/riaktest
• ./autogen.sh
• ./configure CFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" --prefix=$HOME/path/to/dir/syslog-ng --disable-java
• make
• riak start (for set in bulk mode use, make sure the riak ulimit is set to a higher value than 1024)
• make check
• make install
• copy the syslog-ng/modules/riak/riak-example.conf from source to istallation prefixetc/syslog-ng.conf

##The options for the riak destination

• host() - string - the hostname or ip address of the riak server default - localhost
• port() - number - the port number of the riak server default - 8087
• bucket("<template>" type() mode()) :
  • <template> - takes in the bucket name template for eg logs_${YEAR}${MONTH}${DAY}
  • type() - takes in the bucket_type
  • mode() - takes in set(using riak CRDT set) or store as modes
• key("<template>") - takes a key name template for eg ${UNIX_TIME}-${UUID}
• value("<template>" charset() content_type())
  • charset() takes in charset for eg utf8
  • content_type() takes in content type eg application/json
• flush_lines() - This works only with set mode adding to its bulk functionality It takes in a number say 100 and then saves the messages in buffer until 100 messages are received and then sends it to riak