How to install varnishbeat?

What is varnishbeat?

Beat is a elasticsearch beat plugin to ship the varnish shared memory(VSM) to Elasticsearch or Logstash or Apache Kafka or Redis or Local File system.

Reference: https://github.com/phenomenes/varnishbeat

 

Assumption:

I assume that you already installed varnish-cache and ELK on separate machines.

https://www.elastic.co/

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/5.0/installation/install.html#debian-ubuntu

 

Install GO 1.6+ on Varnish Cache instance

Follow the instruction as given in my blog post below

https://thangamaniarun.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/how-to-install-go-1-6-on-ubuntu-14-04-onwards/

Install Varnishbeat

Make sure go compiler and go env settings is already in place and git client installed on your varnish system.

# go version
go version go1.6 linux/amd64

#apt-get install -y git

# export | grep GO
declare -x GOPATH=”/root/varnishbeat”
declare -x GOROOT=”/root/go”

Install varnish beat now

#  go get github.com/phenomenes/varnishbeat

 

Run varnishbeat now

# /root/varnishbeat/bin/varnishbeat –help
Usage of /root/varnishbeat/bin/varnishbeat:
  -E value
        Configuration overwrite (default null)
  -N    Disable actual publishing for testing
  -c path
        Configuration file path (default /root/varnishbeat/bin/varnishbeat.yml)
  -configtest
        Test configuration and exit.
  -cpuprofile string
        Write cpu profile to file
  -d string
        Enable certain debug selectors
  -e    Log to stderr and disable syslog/file output
  -httpprof string
        Start pprof http server
  -memprofile string
        Write memory profile to this file
  -path.config value
        Configuration path
  -path.data value
        Data path
  -path.home value
        Home path
  -path.logs value
        Logs path
  -v    Log at INFO level
  -version
        Print the version and exit

 

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