Heka

Heka

Heka is an open source stream processing software system developed by Mozilla. Heka is a “Swiss Army Knife” type tool for data processing, useful for a wide variety of different tasks, such as:

• Loading and parsing log files from a file system.
• Accepting statsd type metrics data for aggregation and forwarding to upstream time series data stores such as graphite or InfluxDB.
• Launching external processes to gather operational data from the local system.
• Performing real time analysis, graphing, and anomaly detection on any data flowing through the Heka pipeline.
• Shipping data from one location to another via the use of an external transport (such as AMQP) or directly (via TCP).
• Delivering processed data to one or more persistent data stores.

Configuration overview

All LMA heka config files are located in /etc/lma_collector folder. e.g. on controller there are follwing confguration files:

amqp-openstack_error.toml
amqp-openstack_info.toml
amqp-openstack_warn.toml
decoder-collectd.toml
decoder-http-check.toml
decoder-keystone_7_0.toml
decoder-keystone_wsgi.toml
decoder-mysql.toml
decoder-notification.toml
decoder-openstack.toml
decoder-ovs.toml
decoder-pacemaker.toml
decoder-rabbitmq.toml
decoder-swift.toml
decoder-system.toml
encoder-elasticsearch.toml
encoder-influxdb.toml
encoder-nagios_afd_nodes_debug.toml
encoder-nagios_afd_nodes.toml
encoder-nagios_gse_global_clusters.toml
encoder-nagios_gse_node_clusters.toml
filter-afd_api_backends.toml
filter-afd_api_endpoints.toml
filter-afd_node_controller_cpu.toml
filter-afd_node_controller_log-fs.toml
filter-afd_node_controller_root-fs.toml
filter-afd_node_mysql-nodes_mysql-fs.toml
filter-afd_service_apache_worker.toml
filter-afd_service_cinder-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_glance-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_heat-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_keystone-admin-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_keystone-public-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_mysql_node-status.toml
filter-afd_service_neutron-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_nova-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_service_rabbitmq_disk.toml
filter-afd_service_rabbitmq_memory.toml
filter-afd_service_rabbitmq_queue.toml
filter-afd_service_swift-api_http_errors.toml
filter-afd_workers.toml
filter-gse_global.toml
filter-gse_node.toml
filter-gse_service.toml
filter-heka_monitoring.toml
filter-http_metrics.toml
filter-influxdb_accumulator.toml
filter-influxdb_annotation.toml
filter-instance_state.toml
filter-resource_creation_time.toml
filter-service_heartbeat.toml
global.toml
httplisten-collectd.toml
httplisten-http-check.toml
input-aggregator.toml
logstreamer-keystone_7_0.toml
logstreamer-keystone_wsgi.toml
logstreamer-mysql.toml
logstreamer-openstack_7_0.toml
logstreamer-openstack_dashboard.toml
logstreamer-ovs.toml
logstreamer-pacemaker.toml
logstreamer-rabbitmq.toml
logstreamer-swift.toml
logstreamer-system.toml
multidecoder-aggregator.toml
output-aggregator.toml
output-dashboard.toml
output-elasticsearch.toml
output-influxdb.toml
output-nagios_afd_nodes.toml
output-nagios_gse_global_clusters.toml
output-nagios_gse_node_clusters.toml
scribbler-aggregator_flag.toml
splitter-openstack.toml
splitter-rabbitmq.toml

Heka's configuration files can be divided into follwing groups:

• Inputs
• Splitters
• Decoders
• Filters
• Encoders
• Outputs

Inputs

On controller there are following inputs groups:

AMQPInput

AMQP input (https://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/v0.10.0/config/inputs/amqp.html)
There are followinf AMQP inputs:

• amqp-openstack_error.toml
• amqp-openstack_info.toml
• amqp-openstack_warn.toml

All AMQP inputs looks like:

[openstack_error_amqp]
type = "AMQPInput"
url = "amqp://nova:nova_password@192.168.0.2:5673/"
exchange = "nova"
exchange_type = "topic"
exchange_durability = false
exchange_auto_delete = false
queue_auto_delete = false
queue = "lma_notifications.error"
routing_key = "lma_notifications.error"
decoder = "notification_decoder"
splitter = "NullSplitter"
can_exit = true

The only difference between AMQP inputs are queue and routing_key parameter:

queue = "lma_notifications.info"
routing_key = "lma_notifications.info"

All AMQP inputs use one decoder to decode AMQP messages: notification_decoder, configuration can be found in decoder-notification.toml file.

LMA plugin configures openstack services to use 'lma_notifications' as notification_topics, e.g :

# cat /etc/nova/nova.conf | grep lma
notification_topics=lma_notifications

so heka is enable to get messages from queue and decode it.
Also, it is possible to see rabbitmq messages using trace plugin, for details please see: http://wiki.sirmax.noname.com.ua/index.php/Rabbitmq_trace#RabbitMQ_log_messages

HttpListenInput

HttpListenInput plugins start a webserver listening on the specified address and port. For more detail: https://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/v0.10.0/config/inputs/httplisten.html

• httplisten-collectd.toml
• httplisten-http-check.toml

TcpInput

input-aggregator.toml

LogstreamerInput

• logstreamer-keystone_7_0.toml
• logstreamer-keystone_wsgi.toml
• logstreamer-mysql.toml
• logstreamer-openstack_7_0.toml
• logstreamer-openstack_dashboard.toml
• logstreamer-ovs.toml
• logstreamer-pacemaker.toml
• logstreamer-rabbitmq.toml
• logstreamer-swift.toml
• logstreamer-system.toml

Splitters

Splitter details: https://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/v0.10.0/config/splitters/index.html
There are only one custom splitter:

[openstack_splitter]
type = "RegexSplitter"
delimiter = '(<[0-9]+>)'
delimiter_eol = false

Decoders

decoder-collectd.toml
decoder-libvirt.toml
decoder-openstack.toml
decoder-ovs.toml
decoder-system.toml

Heka Debugging

[RstEncoder]

[output_file]
type = "FileOutput"
#message_matcher = "Fields[aggregator] == NIL && Type == 'heka.sandbox.afd_node_metric'"
message_matcher = "Fields[aggregator] == NIL"
path = "/var/log/heka-debug.log"
perm = "666"
flush_count = 100
flush_operator = "OR"
#encoder = "nagios_afd_nodes_encoder_debug"
encoder = "RstEncoder"