elasticsearch-wildfly-log

Elasticsearch log handler for Wildfly.

NOTE: Current build was tested with Wildfly 8, Elasticsearch 1.6.0 and Kibana 4.1.1.

This handler sends log records from Wildfly directly to Elasticsearch cluster. For visualization of the log events, use Kibana tool.

download Wildfly 8: http://wildfly.org/
download Elasticsearch 1.6.0: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch
dowlonad Kibana 4.1.1: https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana

Build project with maven: mvn clean package

Unzip the archive created in target/zip folder to $WILDFLY_HOME/modules/system/layers/base.

Directory structure of the unzipped archive:

	org
	├── elasticsearch
	│   └── main
	│       ├── elasticsearch-1.6.0.jar
	│       ├── lucene-analyzers-common-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-core-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-expressions-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-grouping-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-highlighter-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-join-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-memory-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-misc-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-queries-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-queryparser-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-sandbox-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-spatial-4.10.4.jar
	│       ├── lucene-suggest-4.10.4.jar
	│       └── module.xml
	└── wildfly
	    └── elasticsearch
	        └── log
	            └── main
	                ├── elasticsearch-wildfly-log-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
	                └── module.xml

Configuration

Edit Wildfly configuration file standalone/configuration/standalone.xml or its domain version:

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:logging:2.0">
	...
	<custom-handler name="ELASTICSEARCH" class="org.elasticsearch.wildfly.log.ElasticsearchLogHandler" module="org.wildfly.elasticsearch.log">
		<level name="DEBUG"/>
		<formatter>
		    <pattern-formatter pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n"/>
		</formatter>
		<properties>
			<!-- Default configuration for localhost, all values are mandatory -->
		    <property name="clusterName" value="elasticsearch"/>  
		    <property name="transportAddress" value="localhost"/>  
		    <property name="port" value="9300" />
		    <property name="index" value="wildfly"/>  
		    <property name="indexType" value="log"/>
		</properties>  
	</custom-handler>
	...
	<!-- NOTE: To avoid recursive calls inside elasticsearch log handler, it is needed to turn off logs from
		 		org.elasticsearch package which the handler uses. -->
	<logger category="org.elasticsearch">
	    <level name="OFF"/>
	</logger>
	
	<root-logger>
            <level name="DEBUG"/>
            <handlers>
                <handler name="CONSOLE"/>
                <handler name="FILE"/>
	    		<handler name="ELASTICSEARCH"/>
            </handlers>
    </root-logger>
</subsystem>

Run

Simple scenario if you are running on localhost.

Run Elasticsearch
Run Wildfly
Run Kibana
Go to localhost:5601

RadekKoubsky/elasticsearch-wildfly-log

elasticsearch-wildfly-log

Configuration

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