fakelogger

fakelogger is a simple and useful Python script to test Elastic and Kibana. It generates random fake logs and sends them to Elastic.

Usage

• Usage is also pretty simple. Clone the repo. Update ELASTIC_URL and LOG_DURATION environment variables in the docker-compose.yaml according to your environment and scenario.

• ELASTIC_URL represents the Elastic endpoint

• LOG_DURATION represents the period of sending logs to Elastic.

• To run fakelogger at full capacity, you can set the LOG_DURATION to 0 or simply not specify it. Otherwise, fakelogger will wait for the specified duration in seconds before sending logs.

• After making the changes,

docker compose up -d

Tips

• If Elasticsearch is also running as a Docker container, you may not be able to access it at localhost:9200. In this case, you can modify the Docker Compose file to run Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fakelogger on the same network, or alternatively, try using the server IP instead of localhost.

• Instead of creating an index for fakelogger, you can define the ELASTIC_URL as <elasticendpoint>/fakeloggerindex/_doc to enable Kibana to create an index.

• Go to /app/management/kibana/indexPatterns, click on Create Index Pattern, and create fakeloggerindex.