Logentries Chef Cookbook

Installs/Configures the Logentries agent to allow logging to Logentries

Requirements

Platform:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Rhel

Cookbooks:

The following are dependencies of the Logentries cookbook

• apt
• yum

Attributes

Default

• node['le']['account_key'] - your Logentries account_key (this can be found following this link)
• node['le']['hostname'] - sets the hostname of the log to the machine name, defaults to node['hostname']
• node['le']['logs_to_follow'] - An array of logs to follow (use absolute paths)

Usage

Put depends 'yum', and 'apt', in your metadata.rb to gain access to the resources.

Updating the Logentries Agent

Restarting the Chef script will allow the recipe to install any updates to the Logentries agent.

License and Author

Author:: Joe Heung ([email protected]) Author:: Caroline Fenlon

Copyright (C) 2014, RevelOps Inc.

License:: All rights reserved