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John Vincent
February 16, 2012
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Tool Time with John
Presentation at Atlanta Puppet User's Group
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February 16, 2012
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Transcript
Tool Time with John! SE Puppet Users Group 02/16/2012
Everyone needs a tool belt
Why? • To fix things • To make things •
To keep your pants up
Caveats
There are tools
There are the right tools for a given job
Then there's “butterknifing a phillips head”
Fixing Things
Logging is Broken(ish) • Commercial options are expensive • Syslog
isn't flexible enough • Log lines are just data points with a timestamp (event)
Enter Logstash
Logstash • Unix pipe on steroids • If it has
a timestamp, send it to Logstash • Slice it, Dice it, Munge it, Transform it • Now spit it out • This isn't a Logstash talk.
Simple Sample Configuration
More complex (inputs)
More complex (filters)
More complex (outputs)
12 inputs, 11 filters, 21 outputs
Building stuff
Build something • Sockets the way you think sockets should
work • Usable from almost every language • Flow independent • Captures common patterns • Freaking fast
Logstash Filters with ZeroMQ • You need to do something
unique? • There's not a plugin yet? • Specific to your company? • Don't know Ruby? Write your own! (in whatever language you like)
Example – Logstash config
Example – External Filter
End Result
(don't get caught with your) Pants on the Ground
Statsd • Open sourced by Etsy last year • Simple
UDP proxy to Graphite • Different “data types” • Client and Server implementations in almost every language
Graphite • Open sourced by Orbitz • Makes pretty pictures
of data • Does dashboards • Simple API • Does realtime updates • Alternate dashboards available and easy to create
Logstash Configuration
End Result
Recap • Always be adding tools to your toolbelt •
See a cool project? Bookmark it • Evernote/Read it Later are your friends • Always be hacking. Keep your skills fresh.
Links! • Logstash – http://logstash.net • ZeroMQ – http://zeromq.org •
Statsd – http://github.com/etsy/statsd • Graphite – http://graphite.wikidot.com • Evernote – http://evernote.com
Thanks! • Twitter - @lusis • Github – lusis •
Email –
[email protected]