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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 7:22 pm    Post subject: Centralized logging for MQ error logs and syslog on UNIX Reply with quote

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Hi folks,

Does anyone know of any robust UNIX solutions that provide centralized logging for MQ error logs and syslog messages, in real-time? It needs an app that allows log messages to be filtered and watched while critical changes are in progress, or investigating issues across multiple systems. It also requires the ability to look at past logs, and do reporting / data crunching. Preferably easy to use, setup, administer, maintain, low s/w cost or no s/w cost.

This for MQ / IIB technical operations use. Not for monitoring, incident alerting or notification (we already have enterprise tools for that).
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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If using MQ V9.0.4 the logs can additionally be JSON formatted, which the likes of Splunk can parse. Not sure if that's of any help to you?
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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/messaging/entry/Storing_and_searching_MQ_logs_in_Elasticsearch

Has anyone implemented MQ error logs -> Logstash -> Elasticsearch -> Kibana ?
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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-centralize-logs-with-rsyslog-logstash-and-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-14-04

To capture UNIX syslog messages from IIB, one can use rsyslog ( http://www.rsyslog.com/ ) to send over TCP to a remote rsyslog server, and then use Logstash.

Has anyone implemented this?
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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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exerk wrote:
If using MQ V9.0.4 the logs can additionally be JSON formatted, which the likes of Splunk can parse. Not sure if that's of any help to you?

FYI, here is the IBM developerWorks article - https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2017/12/05/introducing-mq-error-logs-json-format/
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gbaddeley wrote:
exerk wrote:
If using MQ V9.0.4 the logs can additionally be JSON formatted, which the likes of Splunk can parse. Not sure if that's of any help to you?

FYI, here is the IBM developerWorks article - https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/2017/12/05/introducing-mq-error-logs-json-format/

And comparing that with the first link you posted, I can now see why IBM decided to do it "at source"!

Thank you for that Logstash etc. link - I'm going to have to stop ignoring those eye-catcher emails
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gbaddeley wrote:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/messaging/entry/Storing_and_searching_MQ_logs_in_Elasticsearch

Has anyone implemented MQ error logs -> Logstash -> Elasticsearch -> Kibana ?




But we're starting out with ELK and it seems to be going ok for Oracle & WAS. MQ & IIB / ACE coming shortly......
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PeterPotkay
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We are going Splunking later this year, I hope.

To date, MQ's highly formatted, not-single-line-entry logs have been challenging for our current corporate logging facility. As in, not worth the effort and whose got the time to make it work.

T.Rob's blog has a really in depth post only a few weeks ago where shares a lot of the Splunky stuff he did with MQ at a client.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Why don't IBM use their own messaging to pub/sub the error log? (In addition to any file based error logging).
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