honeycombio/chef-honeytail

Name: chef-honeytail

Owner: Honeycomb

Description: Chef cookbook for installing and configuring honeytail

Created: 2016-11-18 21:09:18.0

Updated: 2016-11-18 21:50:14.0

Pushed: 2017-03-02 20:19:31.0

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Language: Ruby

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README

Chef cookbook to install honeytail

For more details on honeytail, see the Honeycomb docs

Usage

To successfully use this cookbook, there are a few things you should do in the wrapping cookbook.

Specify your Honeycomb details in attributes:

• default['honeytail']['parser'] - a string - run honeytail --list for a list of valid values
• default['honeytail']['writekey'] - a string - your Honeycomb team key
• default['honeytail']['dataset'] - a string - the name of the dataset to use
• default['honeytail']['logfiles'] - a list of strings - the files to tail

Make sure the honeytail user has read access to your log files. The easiest way to do this is to add the honeytail user to a group that has read access to the logs or make the logs world readable. As an example, if the log file you want to use is mode 640 with ownership www:adm, the following would let the honeytail user read it:

p 'adm' do
tion :modify
mbers 'honeytail'
pend true