papertrail

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Setup - The basics of getting started with papertrail
   • What papertrail affects
   • Beginning with papertrail
3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

This module configures the Papertrail remote_syslog2 agent. To configure rsyslog for use with Papertrail, check out the Papertrail documentation.

Setup

What papertrail affects

This module installs and manages the Papertrail remote_syslog2 agent via the Github releases.

Beginning with papertrail

Set the parameters $papertrail::destination_host, $papertrail::destination_port, and at least one file/directory in $papertrail::files.

class {'papertrail':
  destination_host => 'logsN.papertrailapp.com',
  destination_port => XXXXX,
  files            => ['/tmp/test.log', '/srv/foo.txt', '/var/log/*.bar']
}

Usage

This module only has one manifest, which does all setup and configuration. There are a number of parameters you can configure, all of which mirror the configuration items found in the remote_syslog2 README.

• $papertrail::files

  Type: Array

  A list of files or patterns to send to Papertrail. At least one entry is required.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      files => [
        '/tmp/test.log',
        '/srv/foo.txt',
        '/var/log/*.bar'
      ]
    }
  

  To tag a file/path, the structure is slightly different:

    class {'papertrail':
      files => [
        '/tmp/test.log',
        '/srv/foo.txt',
        '/var/log/*.bar',
        {'path' => '/srv/foo.txt', 'tag' => 'my_tag'}
      ]
    }
  

• $papertrail::exclude_files

  Type: Array

  A list of files or patterns to exclude.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      exclude_files => [
        '/tmp/exlude.log',
        '/srv/dont-include.log',
        '/var/log/skip-me.log'
      ]
    }
  

• $papertrail::exclude_patterns

  Type: Array

  A regex of log message patterns to exclude.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      exclude_patterns => ['\d+ things']
    }
  

• $papertrail::hostname

  Type: String

  Override the default hostname.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      hostname => 'my-super-awesome-hostname'
    }
  

• $papertrail::destination_host, $papertrail::destination_port, & $papertrail::destination_protocol

  Type: String (except $destination_port, which is Integer)

  The Papertrail host and port to send logs to, and the protocol to use. These are required. Destination and port default to empty, while Protocol defaults to tls.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      destination_host     => 'logsN.papertrailapp.com',
      destination_port     => XXXXX,
      destination_protocol => 'tls'
    }
  

• $papertrail::new_file_check_interval

  Type: Integer

  Overrides the default file check interval.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      new_file_check_interval => 30
    }
  

• $papertrail::severity

  Type: String

  Overrides the default remote_syslog2 severity level.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      severity => 'warn'
    }
  

• $papertrail::facility

  Type: String

  Overrides the default remote_syslog2 facility.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      facility => 'local7'
    }
  

• $papertrail::version

  Type: String

  Use a different version of remote_syslog than the default.

  Example:

    class {'papertrail':
      version => '0.18'
    }
  

Limitations

Supported Platforms

• RHEL 6 / CentOS 6
• RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
• Amazon Linux 2017.03
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Debian 9

Supported Puppet Versions

This module has been tested on Puppet 4.x and 5.x.

Development

Testing

Integration tests utilize kitchen-puppet and serverspec. To run the test suite:

1. Run bundle install
2. Run kitchen test

Style and syntax tests can be run with:

• puppet-lint manifests/*
• puppet parser validate manifests/*

No unit tests have been written at this time.

All contributions must pass the tests above.

spec/fixtures/manifests/site.pp contains the configuration for testing.

Testing Amazon Linux

Testing Amazon Linux through test-kitchen requires a bit more setup:

1. Ensure kitchen-ec2 is installed: gem install kitchen-ec2
2. Update .kitchen.yml to have the correct AWS key ID you're going to use
3. Set security_group_ids in the driver section to include a security group accessible from your laptop. Not setting this will use the default security group.
4. Set transport.ssh_key to the path of your SSH key. It looks for id_rsa by default.

Release Notes/Contributors/Etc.

License: See LICENSE

Author: Mike Julian (@mjulian)