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How to Splunk with Heroku
- ratpik 14y agoI have been using Logentries addon with Heroku (https://addons.heroku.com/logentries https://addons.heroku.com/logentries) and it does all the things you mentioned namely, Real-time or very-near-real-time data discovery. Wildcard search. Timespan dragging. I would still like to explore splunk as an offline analysis tool for syslog drains.
- wheaties 14y agoI'm in love with papertrail as i don't need more than they offer. Nice write up, however. I'll have ro look into them.
- smmnyc 14y agoWhat happens when you scale up your dynos and you end up with multiple servers all coming from different IP addresses?
- dblock 14y agoHeroku logs are labeled with the ID of the dyno.
- smmnyc 14y agoI know the heroku logs are labeled with the process (web.1, web.2, etc) but if you authorize a set of IPs to splunk and then add 10 more instances with heroku, I would imagine splunk would reject the new IPs. I'm curious if the heroku log drain always comes from the same set of IPs regardless of the dyno.
- dblock 14y agoWe've been using PaperTrailApp successfully, same thing. https://papertrailapp.com/ https://papertrailapp.com/
- swampthing 14y agoI actually prefer PaperTrail for most tasks - the main difference being that you start off with the log and can scroll through easily (instead of having to fiddle with filters).
- ollysb 14y agoI've been exploring different logging options recently, papertrail, loggly, logevents and now splunk. Papertrail was definitely winning for simplicity but I felt the first three really fell short when trying to filter the returned information. I'm using scrolls to generate the logs so they're in key=value format. I've just tried splunk and it blows the others away for analysis. The big difference is in the way you can filter the information, it understands the key=value format and lets you search and then filter based on those. With the charting and dashboards I can build views that really allow me to see what's going on at a glance.