logspout-honeycomb

STATUS: this project is archived. Logspout users can use one of the logspout third-party modules that integrates with logstash or fluentd to send logs to Honeycomb.

Questions? You can chat with us in the Honeycomb Pollinators Slack. You can find a direct link to request an invite in Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community.

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Honeycomb adapter for Logspout. More documentation can be found in Honeycomb docs.

Expects to ingest JSON log lines, and will send JSON blobs up to Honeycomb, annotated with the current logspout stream, container, container ID, hostname, and docker image name.

If the log lines being streamed through Logspout aren't JSON, the contents of the message will be tucked under a "message" key in the Honeycomb payload, alongside the metadata mentioned above.

Building

To build the Honeycomb Logspout Docker image, run:

• make docker

Configuration and invocation

This module can be configured either by setting environment variables in Docker, or by using the Logspout routesapi. The following variables are available:

Env. Variable	routesapi key	Type	Required?	Description
HONEYCOMB_WRITE_KEY	writeKey	string	required	Your Honeycomb team's write key.
HONEYCOMB_DATASET	dataset	string	required	The name of the destination dataset in your Honeycomb account. It will be created if it does not already exist.
HONEYCOMB_SAMPLE_RATE	sampleRate	integer	optional	Sample your event stream: send 1 out of every N events

Environment variables

Configure the logspout-honeycomb image via environment variables and run the container:

docker run \
    -e "ROUTE_URIS=honeycomb://localhost" \
    -e "HONEYCOMB_WRITE_KEY=<YOUR_WRITE_KEY>" \
    -e "HONEYCOMB_DATASET=<YOUR_DATASET>" \
    --volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    --publish=127.0.0.1:8000:80 \
    honeycombio/logspout-honeycomb:1.13

routesapi

Configuration can be set after the logspout-honeycomb image is already running via routesapi:

docker run \
    --volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    --publish=127.0.0.1:8000:80 \
    honeycombio/logspout-honeycomb:1.13

curl $(docker port `docker ps -lq` 80)/routes \
    -X POST \
        -d '{"adapter": "honeycomb",
             "address": "honeycomb://localhost",
             "options": {"writeKey":"<YOUR_WRITE_KEY>",
                         "dataset":"<YOUR_DATASET>"}}'