Log View Plugin

LogView Plugin

This extension allows users to view VM log files. It uses the LogView backend-plugin that extends the CloudStack API with additional requests providing access the VM log files storage. For the LogView UI-plugin operation, firstly, the LogView backend-plugin should be downloaded from GitHub and deployed. The plugin uses the ELK stack to store machine log files and Filebeat to export log files from a VM to the storage. The plugin is developed and tested only with Apache CloudStack 4.11.1.

Then, it is necessary to enable the LogView UI-plugin via the CloudStack-UI configuration file. After activation, the View Logs section appears in CloudStack-UI. There a user can select the log files to display by setting up main parameters - a virtual machine and a date for which a user wishes to see the logs.

To make the View logs section available, first, deploy the LogView plugin and then activate the UI-plugin via the config.json file. See details below.

Deployment Instructions

Full instructions on the LogView backend plugin deployment is presented at the project page.

To enable the LogView UI-plugin you need to:

1. Install the backend plugin into CloudStack.
2. Deploy necessary components: ElasticSearch, Filebeat, Logstash, Curator.
3. Enable the UI extension via the config.json file (see below).

LogView Configuration

Please, enable vmLogs in the extensions section of config.json:

"extensions": {
  ...,
  "vmLogs": true
}