nixos/filebeat: Add initial module and test

Filebeat is an open source file harvester, mostly used to fetch logs
files and feed them into logstash.

This module can be used instead of journalbeat if used with
`filebeat7` and configured with the `journald` input.
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talyz 2021-12-15 19:38:35 +01:00
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@ -448,6 +448,7 @@
./services/hardware/xow.nix
./services/logging/SystemdJournal2Gelf.nix
./services/logging/awstats.nix
./services/logging/filebeat.nix
./services/logging/fluentd.nix
./services/logging/graylog.nix
./services/logging/heartbeat.nix

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@ -0,0 +1,253 @@
{ config, lib, utils, pkgs, ... }:
let
inherit (lib)
attrValues
literalExpression
mkEnableOption
mkIf
mkOption
types;
cfg = config.services.filebeat;
json = pkgs.formats.json {};
in
{
options = {
services.filebeat = {
enable = mkEnableOption "filebeat";
package = mkOption {
type = types.package;
default = pkgs.filebeat;
defaultText = literalExpression "pkgs.filebeat";
example = literalExpression "pkgs.filebeat7";
description = ''
The filebeat package to use.
'';
};
inputs = mkOption {
description = ''
Inputs specify how Filebeat locates and processes input data.
This is like <literal>services.filebeat.settings.filebeat.inputs</literal>,
but structured as an attribute set. This has the benefit
that multiple NixOS modules can contribute settings to a
single filebeat input.
An input type can be specified multiple times by choosing a
different <literal>&lt;name></literal> for each, but setting
<xref linkend="opt-services.filebeat.inputs._name_.type"/>
to the same value.
See <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html"/>.
'';
default = {};
type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule ({ name, ... }: {
freeformType = json.type;
options = {
type = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = name;
description = ''
The input type.
Look for the value after <literal>type:</literal> on
the individual input pages linked from
<link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html"/>.
'';
};
};
}));
example = literalExpression ''
{
journald.id = "everything"; # Only for filebeat7
log = {
enabled = true;
paths = [
"/var/log/*.log"
];
};
};
'';
};
modules = mkOption {
description = ''
Filebeat modules provide a quick way to get started
processing common log formats. They contain default
configurations, Elasticsearch ingest pipeline definitions,
and Kibana dashboards to help you implement and deploy a log
monitoring solution.
This is like <literal>services.filebeat.settings.filebeat.modules</literal>,
but structured as an attribute set. This has the benefit
that multiple NixOS modules can contribute settings to a
single filebeat module.
A module can be specified multiple times by choosing a
different <literal>&lt;name></literal> for each, but setting
<xref linkend="opt-services.filebeat.modules._name_.module"/>
to the same value.
See <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-modules.html"/>.
'';
default = {};
type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule ({ name, ... }: {
freeformType = json.type;
options = {
module = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = name;
description = ''
The name of the module.
Look for the value after <literal>module:</literal> on
the individual input pages linked from
<link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-modules.html"/>.
'';
};
};
}));
example = literalExpression ''
{
nginx = {
access = {
enabled = true;
var.paths = [ "/path/to/log/nginx/access.log*" ];
};
error = {
enabled = true;
var.paths = [ "/path/to/log/nginx/error.log*" ];
};
};
};
'';
};
settings = mkOption {
type = types.submodule {
freeformType = json.type;
options = {
output.elasticsearch.hosts = mkOption {
type = with types; listOf str;
default = [ "127.0.0.1:9200" ];
example = [ "myEShost:9200" ];
description = ''
The list of Elasticsearch nodes to connect to.
The events are distributed to these nodes in round
robin order. If one node becomes unreachable, the
event is automatically sent to another node. Each
Elasticsearch node can be defined as a URL or
IP:PORT. For example:
<literal>http://192.15.3.2</literal>,
<literal>https://es.found.io:9230</literal> or
<literal>192.24.3.2:9300</literal>. If no port is
specified, <literal>9200</literal> is used.
'';
};
filebeat = {
inputs = mkOption {
type = types.listOf json.type;
default = [];
internal = true;
description = ''
Inputs specify how Filebeat locates and processes
input data. Use <xref
linkend="opt-services.filebeat.inputs"/> instead.
See <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html"/>.
'';
};
modules = mkOption {
type = types.listOf json.type;
default = [];
internal = true;
description = ''
Filebeat modules provide a quick way to get started
processing common log formats. They contain default
configurations, Elasticsearch ingest pipeline
definitions, and Kibana dashboards to help you
implement and deploy a log monitoring solution.
Use <xref linkend="opt-services.filebeat.modules"/> instead.
See <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-modules.html"/>.
'';
};
};
};
};
default = {};
example = literalExpression ''
{
settings = {
output.elasticsearch = {
hosts = [ "myEShost:9200" ];
username = "filebeat_internal";
password = { _secret = "/var/keys/elasticsearch_password"; };
};
logging.level = "info";
};
};
'';
description = ''
Configuration for filebeat. See
<link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-reference-yml.html"/>
for supported values.
Options containing secret data should be set to an attribute
set containing the attribute <literal>_secret</literal> - a
string pointing to a file containing the value the option
should be set to. See the example to get a better picture of
this: in the resulting
<filename>filebeat.yml</filename> file, the
<literal>output.elasticsearch.password</literal>
key will be set to the contents of the
<filename>/var/keys/elasticsearch_password</filename> file.
'';
};
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
services.filebeat.settings.filebeat.inputs = attrValues cfg.inputs;
services.filebeat.settings.filebeat.modules = attrValues cfg.modules;
systemd.services.filebeat = {
description = "Filebeat log shipper";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
wants = [ "elasticsearch.service" ];
after = [ "elasticsearch.service" ];
serviceConfig = {
ExecStartPre = pkgs.writeShellScript "filebeat-exec-pre" ''
set -euo pipefail
umask u=rwx,g=,o=
${utils.genJqSecretsReplacementSnippet
cfg.settings
"/var/lib/filebeat/filebeat.yml"
}
'';
ExecStart = ''
${cfg.package}/bin/filebeat -e \
-c "/var/lib/filebeat/filebeat.yml" \
--path.data "/var/lib/filebeat"
'';
Restart = "always";
StateDirectory = "filebeat";
};
};
};
}

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@ -56,6 +56,23 @@ let
'');
};
filebeat = {
enable = elk ? filebeat;
package = elk.filebeat;
inputs.journald.id = "everything";
inputs.log = {
enabled = true;
paths = [
"/var/lib/filebeat/test"
];
};
settings = {
logging.level = "info";
};
};
metricbeat = {
enable = true;
package = elk.metricbeat;
@ -226,12 +243,27 @@ let
one.wait_until_succeeds(
expect_hits("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious")
)
'' + lib.optionalString (elk ? filebeat) ''
with subtest(
"A message logged to the journal is ingested by elasticsearch via filebeat"
):
one.wait_for_unit("filebeat.service")
one.execute("echo 'Superdupercalifragilisticexpialidocious' | systemd-cat")
one.wait_until_succeeds(
expect_hits("Superdupercalifragilisticexpialidocious")
)
one.execute(
"echo 'SuperdupercalifragilisticexpialidociousIndeed' >> /var/lib/filebeat/test"
)
one.wait_until_succeeds(
expect_hits("SuperdupercalifragilisticexpialidociousIndeed")
)
'' + ''
with subtest("Elasticsearch-curator works"):
one.systemctl("stop logstash")
one.systemctl("start elasticsearch-curator")
one.wait_until_succeeds(
'! curl --silent --show-error "${esUrl}/_cat/indices" | grep logstash | grep ^'
'! curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body "${esUrl}/_cat/indices" | grep logstash | grep ^'
)
'';
}) { inherit pkgs system; };
@ -251,6 +283,7 @@ in {
# elasticsearch = pkgs.elasticsearch7-oss;
# logstash = pkgs.logstash7-oss;
# kibana = pkgs.kibana7-oss;
# filebeat = pkgs.filebeat7;
# metricbeat = pkgs.metricbeat7;
# };
unfree = lib.dontRecurseIntoAttrs {
@ -265,6 +298,7 @@ in {
elasticsearch = pkgs.elasticsearch7;
logstash = pkgs.logstash7;
kibana = pkgs.kibana7;
filebeat = pkgs.filebeat7;
metricbeat = pkgs.metricbeat7;
};
};