Introduction

This connector provides support for receiving messages via syslog.

Important

The 0.2 release breaks compatibility with the existing schema.

Configuration

SSLTCPSyslogSourceConnector

Connector is used to receive syslog messages via SSL over TCP.

name=connector1
tasks.max=1
connector.class=com.github.jcustenborder.kafka.connect.syslog.SSLTCPSyslogSourceConnector

# Set these required values
syslog.keystore.password=
syslog.keystore=
syslog.truststore=
syslog.truststore.password=
kafka.topic=
syslog.port=

Name	Description	Type	Default	Valid Values	Importance
kafka.topic	Kafka topic to write syslog data to.	string			high
syslog.keystore	Path to the keystore containing the ssl certificate for this host.	string			high
syslog.keystore.password	Password for the keystore.	password			high
syslog.port	Port to listen on.	int			high
syslog.truststore	Path to the truststore containing the ssl certificate for this host.	string			high
syslog.truststore.password	Password for the truststore.	password			high
syslog.host	Hostname to listen on.	string	null		high
backoff.ms	Number of milliseconds to sleep when no data is returned.	int	100	[50,...]	low
batch.size	The number of records to pull off of the queue at once.	int	5000		low
syslog.backlog	Number of connections to allow in backlog.	int	50	[1,...]	low
syslog.charset	Character set for syslog messages.	string	UTF-8		low
syslog.max.active.sockets	Maximum active sockets	int	0		low
syslog.max.active.sockets.behavior	Maximum active sockets	int	0		low
syslog.reverse.dns.cache.ms	The amount of time to cache the reverse lookup values from DNS.	long	60000		low
syslog.reverse.dns.remote.ip	Flag to determine if the ip address of the remote sender should be resolved. If set to false the hostname value will be null.	boolean	false		low
syslog.shutdown.wait	The amount of time in milliseconds to wait for messages when shutting down the server.	long	500		low
syslog.structured.data	Flag to determine if structured data should be used.	boolean	false		low
syslog.timeout	Number of milliseconds before a timing out the connection.	int	0		low

TCPSyslogSourceConnector

Connector is used to receive syslog messages over TCP.

name=connector1
tasks.max=1
connector.class=com.github.jcustenborder.kafka.connect.syslog.TCPSyslogSourceConnector

# Set these required values
kafka.topic=
syslog.port=

Name	Description	Type	Default	Valid Values	Importance
kafka.topic	Kafka topic to write syslog data to.	string			high
syslog.port	Port to listen on.	int			high
syslog.host	Hostname to listen on.	string	null		high
backoff.ms	Number of milliseconds to sleep when no data is returned.	int	100	[50,...]	low
batch.size	The number of records to pull off of the queue at once.	int	5000		low
syslog.backlog	Number of connections to allow in backlog.	int	50	[1,...]	low
syslog.charset	Character set for syslog messages.	string	UTF-8		low
syslog.max.active.sockets	Maximum active sockets	int	0		low
syslog.max.active.sockets.behavior	Maximum active sockets	int	0		low
syslog.reverse.dns.cache.ms	The amount of time to cache the reverse lookup values from DNS.	long	60000		low
syslog.reverse.dns.remote.ip	Flag to determine if the ip address of the remote sender should be resolved. If set to false the hostname value will be null.	boolean	false		low
syslog.shutdown.wait	The amount of time in milliseconds to wait for messages when shutting down the server.	long	500		low
syslog.structured.data	Flag to determine if structured data should be used.	boolean	false		low
syslog.timeout	Number of milliseconds before a timing out the connection.	int	0		low

UDPSyslogSourceConnector

Connector is used to receive syslog messages over UDP.

name=connector1
tasks.max=1
connector.class=com.github.jcustenborder.kafka.connect.syslog.UDPSyslogSourceConnector

# Set these required values
kafka.topic=
syslog.port=

Name	Description	Type	Default	Valid Values	Importance
kafka.topic	Kafka topic to write syslog data to.	string			high
syslog.port	Port to listen on.	int			high
syslog.host	Hostname to listen on.	string	null		high
backoff.ms	Number of milliseconds to sleep when no data is returned.	int	100	[50,...]	low
batch.size	The number of records to pull off of the queue at once.	int	5000		low
syslog.charset	Character set for syslog messages.	string	UTF-8		low
syslog.reverse.dns.cache.ms	The amount of time to cache the reverse lookup values from DNS.	long	60000		low
syslog.reverse.dns.remote.ip	Flag to determine if the ip address of the remote sender should be resolved. If set to false the hostname value will be null.	boolean	false		low
syslog.shutdown.wait	The amount of time in milliseconds to wait for messages when shutting down the server.	long	500		low
syslog.structured.data	Flag to determine if structured data should be used.	boolean	false		low

Schemas

com.github.jcustenborder.kafka.connect.syslog.SyslogValue

This schema represents a syslog message that is written to Kafka.

Name	Optional	Schema	Default Value	Documentation
date	true	Timestamp		The timestamp of the message.
facility	true	Int32		The facility of the message.
host	true	String		The host of the message.
level	true	Int32		The level of the syslog message as defined by rfc5424
message	true	String		The text for the message.
charset	true	String		The character set of the message.
remote_address	true	String		The ip address of the host that sent the syslog message.
hostname	true	String		The reverse DNS of the remote_address field.

com.github.jcustenborder.kafka.connect.syslog.SyslogKey

This schema represents the key that is written to Kafka for syslog data. This will ensure that all data for a host ends up in the same partition.

Name	Optional	Schema	Default Value	Documentation
remote_address	false	String		The ip address of the host that sent the syslog message.

Development

Debugging

./bin/debug.sh

Suspend waiting for a debugger.

export SUSPEND='Y'
./bin/debug.sh