Hasko, Vladimir
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Reviewed-by: Kucerak, Kristian <kristian.kucerak@t-systems.com> Co-authored-by: Hasko, Vladimir <vladimir.hasko@t-systems.com> Co-committed-by: Hasko, Vladimir <vladimir.hasko@t-systems.com>
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Log Transfer
You can transfer logs to OBS to keep logs for a long time.
Local log files are cleared periodically, but the logs transferred to OBS will not be affected.
To transfer logs, you must have the OBS Administrator permissions apart from the LTS permissions.
Prerequisites
- Logs have been ingested to LTS.
- You have purchased an OBS bucket.
Creating a Log Transfer Task
- Log in to the LTS console and choose Log Transfer in the navigation pane on the left.
- Click Create Log Transfer in the upper right corner.
- On the displayed page, configure the log transfer parameters.
After a transfer task is created, you can modify parameters except the log group name, and log stream name.
Table 1 Transfer parameters Parameter
Description
Example Value
Log Group Name
Select a log group.
N/A
Log Stream Name
Select a log stream.
N/A
OBS Bucket
- Select an OBS bucket.
- If no OBS buckets are available, click View OBS Bucket to access the OBS console and create an OBS bucket.
- Only Standard OBS buckets are supported in LTS.
N/A
Custom Log Transfer Path
- Enabled: Logs will be transferred to a custom path to separate transferred log files of different log streams.
- Disabled: Logs will be transferred to the default path. The default path is LogTanks/Region name/2019/01/01/Log group/Log stream/Log file name.
LTS-test
Log File Prefix
The file name prefix of the log files transferred to an OBS bucket
The prefix must meet the following requirements:
- Can contain 0 to 64 characters.
- Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.).
Example: If you enter LTS-log, the log file name will be LTS-log_Log file name.
LTS-log
Format
The storage format of logs. The value can be Raw Log Format or JSON.
- Examples of the raw log format:
- The following is an example of the JSON format:
{"host_name":"ecs-bd70","ip":"192.168.0.54","line_no":249,"message":"Sep 30 14:40:01 ecs-bd70 CRON[4363]: (root) CMD (/opt/oss/servicemgr/ICAgent/bin/manual/mstart.sh > /dev/null 2>&1)\n","path":"/var/log/syslog","time":1569825602303}
Json
Transfer Log to OBS
Enable log transfer to OBS.
Enabled
Transfer Period
The interval for automatically transferring logs to OBS buckets. The value can be 2, 5, or 30 minutes, or 1, 3, 6, or 12 hours.
3 hours
- Select an OBS bucket.
- Click OK. When the log transfer status changes to Normal, the transfer task has been created.
- Click the OBS bucket name in the OBS Bucket column to access the OBS console and view the transferred log files.
Transferred logs can be downloaded from OBS to your local computer for viewing.
Viewing Transfer Status
The status of a transfer task can be Normal, Abnormal, or Disabled.
- Normal: The log transfer task works properly.
- Abnormal: An error occurred in the log transfer task. The possible causes are as follows:
- The OBS bucket has been deleted. Specify another OBS bucket.
- Access control on the OBS bucket is configured incorrectly. Access the OBS console to correct the settings.
- The key for the encrypted OBS bucket has been deleted or the authorization has been canceled. Ensure that the key is valid.
- Disabled: The log transfer task is stopped.
Deleting a Log Transfer Task
If logs do not need to be transferred, you can delete the transfer task.
- After a transfer task is deleted, log transfer will be stopped. Exercise caution when performing the deletion.
- After a transfer task is deleted, the logs that have been transferred remain in OBS.
- Log in to the LTS console and choose Log Transfer in the navigation pane on the left.
- Locate the row of the target transfer task and choose More > Delete in the Operation column.
- Click OK.