Shipping your logs to elk from mule app/cloudhub

1. Shipping your logs to ELK
from mule app/cloudhub -
Part 2
A guide by Alex Fernandez

2. Log4j
Apache Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the
improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in Logback's architecture.

3. Sample App

4. Configuring Logstash
Logstash can listen to port and can receive
packets of data from log4j
Logstash will listen to port 3333, with the type of
log4j and will be sent out to elasticsearch
*Note: elasticsearch is a link in docker that tells
that logstash will connect to elasticsearch
‘container.’

5. docker-compose.yml
We have 3 containers, 1
elasticsearch, 1 logstash container
and kibana. There ports are exposed
and linked together.
* Note: I am docker installed in a mac
https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/mac/

6. Log4j2.xml
● Socket Appender
Note: Docker/container instance of logstash
is in localdocker host and port of 3333.

7. Running all the containers
docker-compose up
● Starts all the containers and
linked to communicate

8. Kibana

9. References
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_log
https://github.com/splunk/splunk-plugin-eclipse/blob/master/com.splunk.project.java.ui/resources/log4j2.xml
https://gist.github.com/dsummersl/3744192
https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/mac/