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Graylog is an integrated Open Source log capture and analysis solution for operational intelligence.

Graylog is an integrated log capture and analysis solution for operational intelligence.

Non Graylog-authored components include MongoDB for metadata and Elasticsearch for log file storage and text search.

Basically is a server that collect log messages and provide an interface for analysis and monitoring

Architectural view

Messages (logs) are only stored in Elasticsearch. If we have data loss on Elasticsearch, the messages are gone.

MongoDB is only storing meta information and will be abstracted with a general database layer in future versions. This will allow you to use other databases like MySQL instead.

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Send log from PhantomJS to Graylog2

I'm trying to send a log message from PhantomJS script to Graylog. Is there a way to do that?
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Graylog2: Custom index name format

Currently all my indexes have following pattern - graylog_* , so new indexes are created like graylog_0, graylog_1, graylog_2 ... I didnt find anything related to index name in /etc/graylog/server/server.conf Except such as…
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Graylog not consuming plain text log file completely

i have a problem using Graylog, i've been trying to ingest plain log file which contains lines of messages; However, i found out that Graylog not consuming log files content completely; I.e. Graylog only consume 800 from 1000 lines of messages in a…
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ElasticSearch Node location updation

I am using graylog1.4 and elasticsearch 2.3, I would like to change the location of (cluster indexes) -> /var/lib/elasticsearch/graylog2/nodes/0/indices/graylog2_0/0/index/ -> to an attached storage (like I have SAN storage which is mounted as…
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graylog - server wont connect to port 9000

I am trying to set up a graylog-server by their docs I installed everything , turned on elastic search , installed mongo , configurated files , added name / passwd hashed and yet when i visit localhost:9000 is still unable to connect. I tried to…
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How to found top error from GrayLog stream wise?

I want to setup a mechanism to pull a daily report which will send us top 10 errors(stream wise) from GrayLog Server. I think we can do via gray log api interface but i am not sure which API end points needs to be called for the same. Can someone…
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Graylog 2.0 -- Why are replicas being unassigned?

I regularly resolve unassigned replicas messages with the curl command from another post that removes all replicas: ElasticSearch: Unassigned Shards, how to fix? curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_settings -d '{ "number_of_replicas" :0 }' I have run the…
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How do I monitor elasticsearch's logs using Graylog?

I need to monitor elasticsearch's logs by using graylog. I setted up graylog but I am confused as to use which input type to monitor from log files of elasticserach.
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Graylog spawning a lot of child processes

We have a Graylog 2.0.2 (4da1379) setup which collects a very small amount of data (avg of 0 msg per minute), our sysadmin is complaining it's eating a lot of memory and it seems Graylog is spawning 170 child processes which are hogging memory. Is…
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Dropwizard GELF logging appender

I'm using this addon bundle for dropwizard to log messages to a Graylog server: https://github.com/gini/dropwizard-gelf It worked out of the box simply by adding it to the pom.xml and configuring it in the config.yml of my dropwizard server. Great…
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Graylog cannot start inputs. Getting Error in graylog web

If I try to create any type of inputs on my new Graylog server I'm getting a java dump. Currently running on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit with Java 1.8, MongoDB and Elasticsearch. There's no errors in the mongodb, graylog server, or elasticsearch logs. …
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Viewing a generated data file in a directory from graylog

My application generates few data files/output files in a folder I want to Open and view these files from gralog web. Is there any tools which I can use
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Graylog: How to Import Apache LogFiles into the Graylog server

I have a specific need for knowing how to "import" log files I receive from anyone into Graylog. My need is not about 'sending' or configuring a collector that will be sending logs to Graylog. I need to know if I can copy a TAR with logs into the…
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Issue while connecting Graylog server to Elastic Search

Hi my configurations are: elasticsearch.yml : cluster.name: graylog2 node.master: true node.data: true bootstrap.mlockall: true ES_HEAP_SIZE: 8192 (@ 16GB memory) network.bind_host: 127.0.0.1 script.disable_dynamic: true graylog2.conf : is_master =…
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Elasticsearch node out of space due to large index size

I have run out of space on the machine that is running my Graylog server. A lot of the space is taken up with files in the /var/lib/elasticsearch/graylog2/nodes/0/indices/graylog2_0/0/index folder. Is it safe to remove the files in this folder? Is…
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