local heka demo

example.toml

[LogstreamerInput]
hostname = "127.0.0.1:9999"
log_directory = "/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.6.2/logs/"
file_match = 'error\.log'


[AMQPOutput]
url = "amqp://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:5672"
exchange = "HEKA"
exchange_type = "direct"
routing_key = "heka"
message_matcher = "TRUE"


[ElasticSearchOutput]
message_matcher = "TRUE"
encoder = "ESJsonEncoder"


[LogOutput]
message_matcher = "TRUE"
encoder = "PayloadEncoder"


[ESJsonEncoder]


[PayloadEncoder]
append_newlines = false

example_reader.toml

[AMQPInput]
url = "amqp://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:5672"
exchange = "HEKA"
exchange_type = "direct"
routing_key = "heka"
queue = "heka_queue"
queue_auto_delete = false
queue_durability = true


[FileOutput]
message_matcher = "TRUE"
path = "/tmp/heka_log.log"
encoder = "PayloadEncoder"


[LogOutput]
message_matcher = "TRUE"
encoder = "PayloadEncoder"


[PayloadEncoder]
append_newlines = false

heka_demo.sh

#!/bin/bash
# I got a little heka demo going on my Mac:

# All running locally, I got an nginx server to log to a file watched by Heka
# Heka reads the lines and prints them to standard out, puts them on a rabbitmq queue,
# and send them to elasticsearch, which is plugged into kibana.

# Here's what I did:

# install elasticsearch and rabbitmq
brew install elasticsearch rabbitmq nginx

# to run elasticsearch:
elasticsearch &

# to run rabbitmq:
sudo /usr/local/sbin/rabbitmq-server &

# add basic nginx config
sudo mv /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.orig
sudo touch /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo '' > /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e 'worker_processes  1;\n'                          >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e 'error_log  logs/error.log;\n'                    >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e 'events {\n'                                      >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   worker_connections  1024;\n'                  >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '}\n'                                             >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e 'http {\n'                                        >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   include       mime.types;\n'                  >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   default_type  application/octet-stream;\n'    >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   access_log  logs/access.log;\n'               >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   sendfile        on;\n'                        >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   keepalive_timeout  65;\n'                     >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   server {\n'                                   >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '       listen       8080;\n'                     >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '       server_name  localhost;\n'                >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '       location / {\n'                           >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e "           root   /Users/$USER/nginx_stuff;\n"   >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '           index  index.html index.htm;\n'       >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '       }\n'                                      >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '   }\n'                                          >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
echo -e '}\n'                                             >> /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

mkdir ~/nginx_stuff
touch ~/nginx_stuff/index.html
echo 'blahblahblah' > ~/nginx_stuff/index.html

# run nginx
nginx

# get heka
cd ~
mkdir -p heka_stuff
cd heka_stuff
git clone git@github.com:mozilla-services/heka.git

# to build heka:
cd ~/heka_stuff/heka
./build.sh

# make some heka configs
cd ~/heka_stuff
mkdir -p ~/heka_stuff/examples
touch examples/example.toml
echo '' > examples/example.toml
echo -e '[LogstreamerInput]'                                    >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'hostname = "127.0.0.1:9999"'                           >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'log_directory = "/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.6.2/logs/"' >> examples/example.toml
echo -e "file_match = 'error\.log'"                               >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '\n'                                                      >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '[AMQPOutput]'                                          >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'url = "amqp://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:5672"'             >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'exchange = "HEKA"'                                     >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'exchange_type = "direct"'                              >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'routing_key = "heka"'                                  >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'message_matcher = "TRUE"'                              >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '\n'                                                      >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '[ElasticSearchOutput]'                                 >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'message_matcher = "TRUE"'                              >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'encoder = "ESJsonEncoder"'                             >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '\n'                                                      >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '[LogOutput]'                                           >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'message_matcher = "TRUE"'                              >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'encoder = "PayloadEncoder"'                            >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '\n'                                                      >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '[ESJsonEncoder]'                                       >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '\n'                                                      >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '[PayloadEncoder]'                                      >> examples/example.toml
echo -e 'append_newlines = false'                               >> examples/example.toml
echo -e '\n'                                                      >> examples/example.toml

# and:
touch examples/example_reader.toml
echo '' > examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e '[AMQPInput]'                               >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'url = "amqp://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:5672"' >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'exchange = "HEKA"'                         >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'exchange_type = "direct"'                  >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'routing_key = "heka"'                      >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'queue = "heka_queue"'                      >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'queue_auto_delete = false'                 >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'queue_durability = true'                   >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e  '\n'                                       >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e '[FileOutput]'                              >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'message_matcher = "TRUE"'                  >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'path = "/tmp/heka_log.log"'                >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'encoder = "PayloadEncoder"'                >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e '\n'                                        >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e '[LogOutput]'                               >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'message_matcher = "TRUE"'                  >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'encoder = "PayloadEncoder"'                >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e  '\n'                                       >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e '[PayloadEncoder]'                          >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e 'append_newlines = false'                   >> examples/example_reader.toml
echo -e '\n'                                        >> examples/example_reader.toml

# to run heka:
sudo ~/heka_stuff/heka/build/heka/bin/hekad -config=/Users/$USER/heka_stuff/examples/example.toml &
sudo ~/heka_stuff/heka/build/heka/bin/hekad -config=/Users/$USER/heka_stuff/examples/example_reader.toml &

# then install kibana:
mkdir -p ~/kibana_stuff
cd ~/kibana_stuff
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.0.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf kibana-4.0.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz
mv kibana-4.0.1-darwin-x64 kibana
cd kibana

# to run kibana:
./bin/kibana &

# Added the rabbit gui plugin:
sudo /usr/local/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

# In RabbitMQ's GUI, I enabled a binding between the exchange HEKA, routing_key heka, and queue heka_queue
# got to the GUI by going to:
# http://127.0.0.1:15672/

# then, I started up nginx (from a brew install of nginx at unprivileged port 8080)
# curling the endpoint gives a favico error which gets written into the log file and
# sent to elastic search and rabbit.

# The second heka instance reads the log lines off of rabbit and prints them to
# standard out.

# of course, the icing on the cake is that we have effortlessly got a kibana up and running
# which we can check out by taking the browser to:
# http://127.0.0.1:5601/

nginx.conf

worker_processes  1;
error_log  logs/error.log;
events {
   worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
   include       mime.types;
   default_type  application/octet-stream;
   access_log  logs/access.log;
   sendfile        on;
   keepalive_timeout  65;
   server {
       listen       8080;
       server_name  localhost;
       location / {
           root   /Users/mgarvey/nginx_stuff;
           index  index.html index.htm;
       }
   }
}

here's a script that will setup a local running heka system.

There are 2 running instances of the heka software:
one watches an nginx logfile, and when it gets a new line, writes that to standard out, to elasticache, and to a rabbit queue
the other reads from the rabbitmq queue, and then adds lines to standard out as well as /tml/heka_log.log logfile.

I believe the only outstanding configurational detail missing here is that I had to manually create the queue via rabbit's GUI, and I had to create a binding between the HEKA exchange and the heka_queue queue (the one i created) on the routing key "heka"