Collector Plugin for Graylog

Graylog Collector is a lightweight Java application that allows you to forward data from log files to a Graylog cluster. The collector can read local log files and also Windows Events natively, it then can forward the log messages over the network using the GELF format.

⚠️ The Graylog Collector Sidecar is deprecated and can be replaced with Graylog Sidecar

Required Graylog version: 2.0 and later

Installation

Download the plugin and place the .jar file in your Graylog plugin directory. The plugin directory is the plugins/ folder relative from your graylog-server directory by default and can be configured in your graylog.conf file.

Restart graylog-server and you are done.

Development

You can improve your development experience for the web interface part of your plugin dramatically by making use of hot reloading. To do this, do the following:

• git clone https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server.git
• cd graylog2-server/graylog2-web-interface
• ln -s $YOURPLUGIN plugin/
• npm install && npm start

Usage

Please refer to the Documentation.

Getting started

This project is using Maven 3 and requires Java 7 or higher.

• Clone this repository.
• Run mvn package to build a JAR file.
• Optional: Run mvn jdeb:jdeb and mvn rpm:rpm to create a DEB and RPM package respectively.
• Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
• Restart the Graylog.

Plugin Release

We are using the maven release plugin:

$ mvn release:prepare
[...]
$ mvn release:perform

This sets the version numbers, creates a tag and pushes to GitHub. Travis CI will build the release artifacts and upload to GitHub automatically.