Installs fluentd and configures it to match exceptions in log files and send mail notifications with the stack trace.
This cookbook is tested with Chef 11 (latest version). It may work with or without modification on newer versions of Chef, but Chef 11 is recommended.
This cookbook is currently tested on Ubuntu 14.04.
Installs fluentd, the required plugins, and configure it to send notifications.
Include exception-notifier in your node's run_list along with the required attributes:
{
"name":"my_node",
"exception-notifier": {
"sources": [
{
"tag": "module-name.application-name",
"format_firstline": "/^\\[(?<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}.\\d{3}Z)/",
"format": "/^\\[(?<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}.\\d{3}Z)[^\\]]*\\][ ]*(?<level>[^\\s:]+)[ :]*(?<message>.*)/",
"path": "/var/www/application/log/production.log"
}
],
"matches": [
{
"tag": "module-name.application-name",
"input_key": "message",
"regexp": [
"Error:"
]
}
],
"smtp": {
"host": "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
"port": "587",
"user": "my-secret-username",
"password": "my-secret-password",
"enable_starttls_auto": "true",
"from": "[email protected]",
"to": "[email protected]"
}
},
"run_list": [
"recipe[exception-notifier]"
]
}- Allow the configuration of
format1,format2,format3, etc., in sources. - The error set in the subject is taken from the first regex specified in
matches, but the emails could be configured individually for each regex in the list.