I'm using it on Windows (50/50 windows/linux boxes, most customer facing servers are Windows with management boxes as Linux due to the better ops tools on that platform) with no issues. It reads from a text log, parses it with Lua and then ships the resulting packet over the TLS TCP transport to a central aggregation server for stats tracking/transfer to Elasticsearch/InfluxDB. The central server also handles stuff like pulling from CloudWatch and S3 (ELB logs).
Right now Heka doesn't have plugins for some platform-specific stuff such as Windows Event Logs or Performance Counters but I'm working on a sampler for perf counters that runs in Heka's ProcessInput ( https://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config/inputs/index.html#processinput) and writes the data out to stdout using typeperf.exe. The data can then can go through the normal parsing pathways and end up as message packets. An example of the data: Command: typeperf "\Memory\Available bytes" "\processor(_total)\% processor time" Stdout: "(PDH-CSV 4.0)","\\MYPC\Memory\Available bytes","\\MYPC\processor(_total)\% processor time" "01/14/2015 17:05:50.108","1807339520.000000","24.692840" "01/14/2015 17:05:51.109","1807540224.000000","17.999271" "01/14/2015 17:05:52.110","1807552512.000000","11.788940" It's pretty simple lpeg grammar to parse it using the SandboxDecoder, I just have to find time to sit down and write it. Event logs are a bit trickier but I think I can figure out something with the HTTP Input -> XML Decoder and Windows Event Collector forwarding to a heka process on the local host. We'll see. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Ali <h...@alijnabavi.info> wrote: > Thanks, Rob! > > I was hoping to capture generic system information like CPU utilization, > memory consumption, the event log data, disk usage, etc. The rest is stuff > i can get from the file system. > > -Ali > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 4:46 PM Rob Miller <rmil...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> I don't currently know of any plugins that are specifically about pulling >> data in from Windows machines. That being said, only a few of our decoder >> plugins are tied to a specific platform, most should run on Windows w/ no >> problems. What is the specific data that you're trying to process? >> >> -r >> >> >> On 01/14/2015 01:50 PM, Ali wrote: >> > Hi there. >> > >> > I'm anxious to try out Heka at work. Most of the apps and hosts I would >> > use it with run Linux, but I was wondering what I would be able to get >> > by installing Heka on Windows hosts. Part of what I liked about Heka, >> > from what I have read so far, is how fast and simple (from a sysadmin >> > perspective) it is, so I'd hate to diminish its speed and simplicity by >> > going through too many gymnastics to implement it usefully on Windows. >> > Looking at the inputs and decoders I don't see how to use Heka to get >> > Windows data. (I've never used anything but Splunk to get Windows data >> > and that was virtually automatic.) >> > >> > I guess I could leave Heka as an agent/shipper for Linux hosts only and >> > use nxlog et al. to ship Windows logs to a central Heka node for >> processing? >> > >> > Thanks in advance, >> > Ali >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Heka mailing list >> > Heka@mozilla.org >> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/heka >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Heka mailing list > Heka@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/heka > >
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