Icinga module

The icinga module parses the main, debug, and startup logs of Icinga.

When you run the module, it performs a few tasks under the hood:

• Sets the default paths to the log files (but don’t worry, you can override the defaults)
• Makes sure each multiline log event gets sent as a single event
• Uses an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline to parse and process the log lines, shaping the data into a structure suitable for visualizing in Kibana
• Deploys dashboards for visualizing the log data

The icinga module was tested with Icinga >= 2.x on various Linux and Windows systems.

This module is not available for macOS.

You can further refine the behavior of the icinga module by specifying variable settings in the modules.d/icinga.yml file, or overriding settings at the command line.

You must enable at least one fileset in the module. Filesets are disabled by default.

The following example shows how to set paths in the modules.d/icinga.yml file to override the default paths for logs:

- module: icinga
  main:
    enabled: true
    var.paths: ["/path/to/log/icinga2/icinga2.log*"]
  debug:
    enabled: true
    var.paths: ["/path/to/log/icinga2/debug.log*"]
  startup:
    enabled: true
    var.paths: ["/path/to/log/icinga2/startup.log"]

To specify the same settings at the command line, you use:

-M "icinga.main.var.paths=[/path/to/log/icinga2/icinga2.log*]" -M "icinga.debug.var.paths=[/path/to/log/icinga2/debug.log*]" -M "icinga.startup.var.paths=[/path/to/log/icinga2/startup.log]"

Each fileset has separate variable settings for configuring the behavior of the module. If you don’t specify variable settings, the icinga module uses the defaults.

For advanced use cases, you can also override input settings. See Override input settings.

var.paths

An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All patterns supported by Go Glob are also supported here. For example, you can use wildcards to fetch all files from a predefined level of subdirectories: /path/to/log/*/*.log. This fetches all .log files from the subfolders of /path/to/log. It does not fetch log files from the /path/to/log folder itself. If this setting is left empty, Filebeat will choose log paths based on your operating system.

var.paths

An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All patterns supported by Go Glob are also supported here. For example, you can use wildcards to fetch all files from a predefined level of subdirectories: /path/to/log/*/*.log. This fetches all .log files from the subfolders of /path/to/log. It does not fetch log files from the /path/to/log folder itself. If this setting is left empty, Filebeat will choose log paths based on your operating system.

var.paths

An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All patterns supported by Go Glob are also supported here. For example, you can use wildcards to fetch all files from a predefined level of subdirectories: /path/to/log/*/*.log. This fetches all .log files from the subfolders of /path/to/log. It does not fetch log files from the /path/to/log folder itself. If this setting is left empty, Filebeat will choose log paths based on your operating system.

This module comes with sample dashboards. For example:

For a description of each field in the module, see the exported fields section.