FileOutput Plugin for Graylog

Required Graylog version: 2.0 and later

This Plugin has a very specific purpose: Write the messages to an Output plain file, indicated in the Plugin configuration parameters.

Installation

Download the plugin and place the .jar file in your Graylog plugin directory. The plugin directory is the plugins/ folder relative from your graylog-server directory by default and can be configured in your graylog.conf file.

Restart graylog-server and you are done.

Usage

Once you have installed the plugin, you can configure an Output of type com.webcat.FileOutput, with this two simple parameters:

file_name: File to be created in which the messages will be written to. output_folder: Absolute path of the folder in which the file will be written.

Getting started

This project is using Maven 3 and requires Java 8 or higher.

• Clone this repository.
• Run mvn package to build a JAR file.
• Optional: Run mvn jdeb:jdeb and mvn rpm:rpm to create a DEB and RPM package respectively.
• Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
• Restart the Graylog.

Plugin Release

We are using the maven release plugin:

$ mvn release:prepare
[...]
$ mvn release:perform

This sets the version numbers, creates a tag and pushes to GitHub. Travis CI will build the release artifacts and upload to GitHub automatically.