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Sematext Logagent Integration

Sending logs to a Sematext Logs App with Logagent is configured by using the Elasticsearch module in the output configuration, and setting the LOGS_TOKEN as the index.

Tailing Log Files

To send the contents of all log files in the /var/log/ directory, you'd configure Logagent like this:

# /etc/sematext/logagent.conf

# Global options
options:
  # print stats every 60 seconds 
  printStats: 60
  # don't write parsed logs to stdout
  suppress: true
  diskBufferDir: /tmp/sematext-logagent

input:
  files:
    - '/var/log/**/*.log'

output:
  sematext:
    module: elasticsearch
    url: https://logsene-receiver.sematext.com
    index: <LOGS_TOKEN>

To get started, first install Logagent and run the logagent-setup CLI command, where you replace <LOGS_TOKEN> with your Sematext Logs App token.

sudo npm i -g @sematext/logagent
sudo logagent-setup -i <LOGS_TOKEN>

This will do two things. First, generate a YAML configuration file in the /etc/sematext/ directory called logagent.conf. But also create a system service for Logagent and run the log shipper.

Read more about Logagent in the docs here.