[enterprise-4.13] [GH#42020] [RHDEVDOCS-4353] [BZ#2108987] update supported log forwarding plugins 5.3-5.6

logging/cluster-logging-external.adoc

@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-1.
 
 include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-2.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
 
+include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-3.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
+
+include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-4.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
+
+include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-5.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
+
+include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-6.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
+
 include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forward-es.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
 
 include::modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forward-fluentd.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-2.adoc

@@ -53,8 +53,3 @@ kafka 2.7.0
 // This file is the authoritative source of information about which items and versions Red Hat tests and supports.
 // According to this link:https://github.com/zendesk/ruby-kafka#compatibility[Zendesk compatibility list for ruby-kafka], the fluent-plugin-kafka plugin supports Kafka version 0.11.
 // Logstash support is according to https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/master/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_logstash_test.go#L37
-
-[NOTE]
-====
-Previously, the syslog output supported only RFC-3164. The current syslog output adds support for RFC-5424.
-====

modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-3.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// Module included in the following assemblies:
+//
+// logging/cluster-logging-external.adoc
+
+[id="cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-3_{context}"]
+
+= Supported log data output types in OpenShift Logging 5.3
+
+Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.3 provides the following output types and protocols for sending log data to target log collectors.
+
+Red Hat tests each of the combinations shown in the following table. However, you should be able to send log data to a wider range target log collectors that ingest these protocols.
+
+[options="header"]
+|====
+| Output types   | Protocols          | Tested with
+
+| Amazon CloudWatch
+| REST over HTTPS
+| The current version of Amazon CloudWatch
+
+
+| elasticsearch
+| elasticsearch
+a| Elasticsearch 7.10.1
+
+| fluentdForward
+| fluentd forward v1
+a| fluentd 1.7.4
+
+logstash 7.10.1
+
+| Loki
+| REST over HTTP and HTTPS
+| Loki 2.2.1 deployed on OCP
+
+| kafka
+| kafka 0.11
+a| kafka 2.7.0
+
+| syslog
+| RFC-3164, RFC-5424
+| rsyslog-8.39.0
+
+|====
+
+// Note: validate these items against the corresponding line of the test configuration files that Red Hat OpenShift Logging uses:
+//
+// cloudwatch       https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_cloudwatch_test.go#L18
+// elasticsearch    https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_elasticsearch_index_test.go#L17
+// es fluentd       https://github.com/ViaQ/logging-fluentd/blob/release-5.5/fluentd/Gemfile.lock#L55
+// fluentd          https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/Makefile#L23
+// kafka            https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/test/helpers/kafka/constants.go#L17
+// kafka fluentd    https://github.com/zendesk/ruby-kafka/tree/v1.4.0#compatibility
+// logstash         https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_logstash_test.go#L30 
+// loki             https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/test/helpers/loki/receiver.go#L25
+// syslog protocols https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/tree/release-5.3/test/functional/outputs/syslog
+// syslog version   https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.3/test/framework/functional/output_syslog.go#L13

modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-4.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// Module included in the following assemblies:
+//
+// logging/cluster-logging-external.adoc
+
+[id="cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-4_{context}"]
+
+= Supported log data output types in OpenShift Logging 5.4
+
+Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.4 provides the following output types and protocols for sending log data to target log collectors.
+
+Red Hat tests each of the combinations shown in the following table. However, you should be able to send log data to a wider range target log collectors that ingest these protocols.
+
+[options="header"]
+|====
+| Output types   | Protocols          | Tested with
+
+| Amazon CloudWatch
+| REST over HTTPS
+| The current version of Amazon CloudWatch
+
+
+| elasticsearch
+| elasticsearch
+a| Elasticsearch 7.10.1
+
+| fluentdForward
+| fluentd forward v1
+a| fluentd 1.14.5
+
+logstash 7.10.1
+
+| Loki
+| REST over HTTP and HTTPS
+| Loki 2.2.1 deployed on OCP
+
+| kafka
+| kafka 0.11
+a| kafka 2.7.0
+
+| syslog
+| RFC-3164, RFC-5424
+| rsyslog-8.39.0
+
+|====
+
+// Note: validate these items against the corresponding line of the test configuration files that Red Hat OpenShift Logging uses:
+//
+// cloudwatch       https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_cloudwatch_test.go#L18
+// elasticsearch    https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_elasticsearch_index_test.go#L17
+// es fluentd       https://github.com/ViaQ/logging-fluentd/blob/release-5.5/fluentd/Gemfile.lock#L55
+// fluentd          https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/Makefile#L23
+// kafka            https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/test/helpers/kafka/constants.go#L17
+// kafka fluentd    https://github.com/zendesk/ruby-kafka/tree/v1.4.0#compatibility
+// logstash         https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_logstash_test.go#L30 
+// loki             https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/test/helpers/loki/receiver.go#L26
+// syslog protocols https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/tree/release-5.4/test/functional/outputs/syslog
+// syslog version   https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.4/test/framework/functional/output_syslog.go#L13

modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-5.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+// Module included in the following assemblies:
+//
+// logging/cluster-logging-external.adoc
+
+[id="cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-5_{context}"]
+
+= Supported log data output types in OpenShift Logging 5.5
+
+Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.5 provides the following output types and protocols for sending log data to target log collectors.
+
+Red Hat tests each of the combinations shown in the following table. However, you should be able to send log data to a wider range target log collectors that ingest these protocols.
+
+[options="header"]
+|====
+| Output types   | Protocols          | Tested with
+
+| Amazon CloudWatch
+| REST over HTTPS
+| The current version of Amazon CloudWatch
+
+
+| elasticsearch
+| elasticsearch
+a| Elasticsearch 7.10.1
+
+| fluentdForward
+| fluentd forward v1
+a| fluentd 1.14.6
+
+logstash 7.10.1
+
+| Loki
+| REST over HTTP and HTTPS
+| Loki 2.5.0 deployed on OCP
+
+| kafka
+| kafka 0.11
+a| kafka 2.7.0
+
+| syslog
+| RFC-3164, RFC-5424
+| rsyslog-8.39.0
+
+|====
+
+// Note: validate these items against the corresponding line of the test configuration files that Red Hat OpenShift Logging uses:
+//
+// cloudwatch       https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_cloudwatch_test.go#L18
+// elasticsearch    https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/functional/outputs/elasticsearch/forward_to_elasticsearch_index_test.go#L24
+// elasticsearch    https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/framework/functional/output_elasticsearch7.go#L13
+// es fluentd       https://github.com/ViaQ/logging-fluentd/blob/release-5.5/fluentd/Gemfile.lock#L55
+// fluentd          https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/Makefile#L24
+// kafka            https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/helpers/kafka/constants.go#L17
+// kafka fluentd    https://github.com/zendesk/ruby-kafka/tree/v1.4.0#compatibility
+// logstash         https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_logstash_test.go#L30 
+// loki             https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/helpers/loki/receiver.go#L26
+// syslog protocols https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/tree/release-5.5/test/functional/outputs/syslog
+// syslog version   https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.5/test/framework/functional/output_syslog.go#L14

modules/cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-6.adoc

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+// Module included in the following assemblies:
+//
+// logging/cluster-logging-external.adoc
+
+[id="cluster-logging-collector-log-forwarding-supported-plugins-5-6_{context}"]
+
+= Supported log data output types in OpenShift Logging 5.6
+
+Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.6 provides the following output types and protocols for sending log data to target log collectors.
+
+Red Hat tests each of the combinations shown in the following table. However, you should be able to send log data to a wider range target log collectors that ingest these protocols.
+
+[options="header"]
+|====
+| Output types   | Protocols          | Tested with
+
+| Amazon CloudWatch
+| REST over HTTPS
+| The current version of Amazon CloudWatch
+
+
+| elasticsearch
+| elasticsearch
+a| Elasticsearch 6.8.23
+
+Elasticsearch 7.10.1
+
+Elasticsearch 8.6.1
+
+| fluentdForward
+| fluentd forward v1
+a| fluentd 1.14.6
+
+logstash 7.10.1
+
+| Loki
+| REST over HTTP and HTTPS
+| Loki 2.5.0 deployed on OCP
+
+| kafka
+| kafka 0.11
+a| kafka 2.7.0
+
+| syslog
+| RFC-3164, RFC-5424
+| rsyslog-8.39.0
+
+|====
+
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+Fluentd doesn't support Elasticsearch 8 as of 5.6.2.
+Vector doesn't support fluentd/logstash/rsyslog before 5.7.0.
+====
+
+// Note: validate these items against the corresponding line of the test configuration files that Red Hat OpenShift Logging uses:
+//
+// cloudwatch       https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/test/functional/outputs/cloudwatch/forward_to_cloudwatch_test.go#L13
+// elasticsearch    https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/test/framework/functional/output_elasticsearch.go#L16-L18
+// es fluentd       https://github.com/ViaQ/logging-fluentd/blob/release-5.6/fluentd/Gemfile.lock#L55
+// fluentd          https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/Makefile#L50
+// kafka            https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/test/helpers/kafka/constants.go#L17
+// kafka fluentd    https://github.com/zendesk/ruby-kafka/tree/v1.4.0#compatibility
+// logstash         https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/test/functional/outputs/forward_to_logstash_test.go#L30 
+// loki             https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/test/helpers/loki/receiver.go#L27
+// syslog protocols https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/tree/release-5.6/test/functional/outputs/syslog
+// syslog version   https://github.com/openshift/cluster-logging-operator/blob/release-5.6/test/framework/functional/output_syslog.go#L14