Forwarding AWS EC2 system log to New Relic

cchokshi · January 14, 2021, 1:17pm

Hi,
I install NewRelic Aws infrastructure agent, but I can not see ec2 systemlogs in NewRelic.
Do I need to do some additional configuration?

zahrasiddiqa · January 12, 2021, 5:18pm

Hi @cchokshi, You’ll have to follow this documentation to forward your logs to New Relic using our infrastructure agent-

Forward your logs using the infrastructure agent

Hope that helps

cchokshi · January 13, 2021, 7:45pm

As poc …I did added following in /etc/newrelic-infra/loggig.d/poc.yml

logs:

name: “messages”
file: /var/log/messages

Now in query "SELECT * from Log " what should I expect to see and verify that logs are getting forwarded?

zahrasiddiqa · January 14, 2021, 1:47pm

Hey @cchokshi, You should have a file with some messages/content in the path /var/log/messages. You should see the contents of that file in message attribute when you query.