README.md

nats-top-elk

Utility for forwarding NATS Message Broker monitoring data to ELK Stack. Visit http://nats.io/documentation/ for more information about NATS.

Install

$ go get github.com/vsundupey/nats-elk

Dependencies and requirements

Installed elasticsearch, logstash and kibana

Usage

$ nats-elk -c config.json

Config file config.json

{
  "logFilePath" : "path_to_your_log_file",
  "interval": 1000, # ms
  "debugMode": false,
  "traceMode": false,
  "connectionsVerbose": false,
  "logStashUrl": "http://your_logstash_address",
  "LgLogin": "demo",    # logstash login
  "LgPassword": "demo", # logstash password
  "natsUrls": [ "http://nats_server_adress1:8222/", "http://nats_server_adress2:8222/", "http://nats_server_adress3:8222/" ]
}

Logstash config file

Create logstash config file /etc/logstash/conf.d/default.config:

input
{
	http{
		type 	 => "nats_top"
		user     => "demo"
		password => "demo"	
	}
}

output
{
	if [type] == "nats_top" {
		elasticsearch 
		{
			hosts => ["http://localhost:9200"]
			index => "nats_top_info"
		}
	}
}

Demo tutorial

Video demonstration about how to create real-time dashboards in Kibana.