#logstash

jamesturnbull: check out the latest rspec tests i added to the logstash puppet module ;-)

Electrical: I saw!

Electrical: cool

all generated by a script ;-)

which is only 150 lines of code :-)

btw jamesturnbull: you any idea what i can do about http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19972 ? or is it a bug in puppet?

Title: Bug #19972: puppet doc fails against forge.puppetlabs.com/ispavailability/logstash - Puppet - Puppet Labs (at projects.puppetlabs.com)

argh. bloody irc

Electrical: try asking masterzen on #puppet - he wrote a lot of the puppet doc stuff

okay, will do. thnx jamesturnbull :-)

Anybody have any idea why I can run log stash directly from the command line fine, but the simple init script starts, then stops right after it loads plugins?

running java -jar … works great, but my init script w/ exactly the same text in it, starts, then stops a few seconds later.

?

Anybody have any idea why I can run log stash directly from the command line fine, but the simple init script starts, then stops right after it loads plugins?

Anybody alive in here? ;)

bryanp: yes :) maybe you could give us some extra information (a link to a gist or pastebin with your init script)

and you can also check the logs to see if there's something wrong

You got it salvor . One sec

And the logs look good. I'll grab those too

init script on 'agent' server: https://gist.github.com/bryanpearson/5478077

Title: agent init script (at gist.github.com)

log output: https://gist.github.com/bryanpearson/76e4e4c447...

<http://goo.gl/O9lXA>; (at gist.github.com)

I run the init start, it starts… but then stops just after loading the last output plugin. Doesn't send anything to redis either.

But if I run the exact same line of code directly to the cli, it runs and stays running, sending logs to redis as it should

Lastly, the exact same init script starts log stash on my central server, and it works great. I'm puzzled

maybe you could get some extra info from "start-stop-daemon" by removing "--quiet --oknodo", and replacing it with "--verbose"

also, I often remove "-b" when debugging weird things with start-stop-daemon, allows to see things directly

ok, i've never done an init script before. Just pasted it from the log stash book. I'll try that and see what output I can get. Thanks salvor

salvor: Whats the -b do?

also you may want to add "-v" to logstash options so that it will be more verbose (right at the end of "logstash_bin=" declaration, before the ending double quote

the "-b" option for start-stop-daemon is a synonym for "--background"

ahh

bryanp: if you still have issues. you can checkout my init scripts: https://github.com/electrical/puppet-logstash/t...

<http://goo.gl/CC1FP>; (at github.com)

it's calling -v in the start block

when you're testing things you can remove it and console output will appear right on your console

salvor: Ok

Electrical: Ok

Electrical: Yours better than the one in the logstash book? I wouldn't be able to tell :P

wow, there's a bunch more crap in there.

Not crap, probably good stuff… but I have no idea. Hah

Electrical: Trying your init. Complaining about /etc/default/logstash not being there. What goes in that file?

bryanp: it's in the init script

itself

https://github.com/electrical/puppet-logstash/b... <- starting @ line 35

<http://goo.gl/vM5qT>; (at github.com)

So i have to create the /etc/default/logstash-agent before it'll run?

Seems like that file check there, to see if DEFAULT exists, should work even without the file

how much resources are you guys giving kibana?

mortini_: Ok, i create the default file, w/ the default entered in it, but I get the same error.

dunno

This init needs it's own instruction :P

So there's nothing super wrong w/ this init script? https://gist.github.com/bryanpearson/5478077

Title: agent init script (at gist.github.com)

So strange.

argh.

bryanp: the init script should work without the defaults file.. if not you can create an empty one.

Electrical: I couldn't figure yours out. But I thought it should. It's just my simpler script *should* work as well. I've got an identical VM with the exact same jar, init, and conf files that works great. So confused

very strange

going cross eyed. Oh well. I'll continue the tutorial just running it from the command line. It says running there.

Electrical: So, I just need to take some of those variables out of your script?

you shouldn't need to modify anything in theory.

What about <%=name%>?

And <%= configdir %>?

ahh sorry. yeah. need to change that one. thats the dir where the jar file is.

roger.

Electrical: None of those have trailing slashes. Correct?

correct

name = instance name

Electrical: "logstash not configured to start, please edit /etc/default/logstash-agent to enable"

ahh that thingy yeah

START=true in the /etc/default/logstash-agent

ahhhh, ok.

Electrical: for the rpm spec, we should iterate on the init stuff; I changed the default sysconfig

hiya whack.

okay

whack: did you see my spec tests for the defines? :-)

nah only saw you say you automatically generate them :)

Electrical: Finally got an error I can see. https://gist.github.com/bryanpearson/8ec12b0c0c...

<http://goo.gl/QqycU>; (at gist.github.com)

https://github.com/logstash/logstash/blob/maste... <-- is what I'm using in the packages I generate

<http://goo.gl/uyR07>; (at github.com)

whack: okay. should be fine. i use the same names.

<http://goo.gl/rtRM2>; (at github.com)

Electrical: Was that for me?

bryanp: that was for whack.

Ok, sorry

for your issue im not sure. very weird though

whack: you any idea?

I'm so offing puzzled. The exact same script works on the receiver sever. This agent only server… start then fail.