Re: IOClog

[Miroslaw Dach via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi All,

We have experimented with logstash and we have the environment setup for caput log and error messages setup.
All seems to work fine when saving datas into the logfiles.
The configuration for logstash which Andrew has summarised:

https://events01.synchrotron.org.au/event/85/contributions/2601/attachments/689/997/5_06_Logstash_for_IOCs.pdf

was very helpful.

Do you have a similar summary for elastic search and Kibana configuration?

Best Regards
Mirek

Subject: Re: IOClog
From: "Konrad, Martin via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: Neil Hamilton Jr <neil.hamilton.jr at gmail.com>, "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 13:36:10 +0000
Hi Neil,
> Is the recommended logging facility IOClog?
20 years ago it was a good choice. If you are looking for a simple
solution for testing it might still get the job done.

For production use there are more powerful tools around, though. Some
labs including ANL and FRIB are successfully using Logstash now which is
very popular in the IT world (there is a good chance your sysadmin is
already using it for system log files etc.). You might want to consider
pairing Logstash with the Elastic Stack to allow fast search and Kibana
for visualization. Andrews had a few slides about how to configure it to
receive EPICS log messages:

https://events01.synchrotron.org.au/event/85/contributions/2601/attachments/689/997/5_06_Logstash_for_IOCs.pdf

Unfortunately, we didn't find time to document this properly. We
appreciate your help turning Andrews slides into a description that can
go into our official documentation.

Thanks,

Martin