How to View Hystax Acura Log Analytics with Kibana

Viewing log analytics for Acura (Kibana)

Task

How to view log analytics.

Solution

Find the instructions for versions 4.4 and above in the Acura Documentation.
Below are the instructions for versions earlier than 4.4:
      1. Use the Kibana service to view log analytics. It is available at: http://<Acura_IP>:30081/. User: kibana_user; password: LxY83mXr. 
      2. If it’s the first launch of Kibana, follow these steps: Log in. Click “Explore on my own”.

      3. Select "Discover" in the "Analytics” section of the menu.



      4. Click “Create data view”.



      5. Enter ‘**’ into the “Name” and “Index pattern” fields, select ‘@timestamp’ in the “Timestamp field”. Click “Save data view to Kibana”. 



      6. Here are some useful filters to search by:
    1. ‘Host:repman‘ – filter for internal agent logs
    2. ‘host:cabrio’ – filter for external agent logs
    3. ‘container_name:*rest*’ - filter for the main service - rest
    4. ‘container_name:*heat*’ - filter Cloud Site related logs
    5. ‘agent_id:*agent ID*’ - logs for some particular agent
    6. ‘ERROR’ – filtering errors.

      7. Enter the filter request, select the date range and click “Refresh”.