Alerta-to-Kibana

Forward Alerta alerts via Logstash to Elasticsearch for visualisation in Kibana.

Installation

Install the following packages:

1. Logstash
2. Elasticsearch
3. Kibana

Configuration

Enable the logstash plug-in which is included in alerta by default:

PLUGINS = ['reject','logstash']
LOGSTASH_HOST = 'localhost'
LOGSTASH_PORT = 1514

Configure logstash to parse json-encoded alerts and forward them to elasticsearch:

input {
    tcp {
        port  => 1514
        codec => json_lines
    }
}
output {
    # stdout {}
    elasticsearch {
        protocol => "http"
        host     => "localhost"
    }
}

Either configure a Kibana dashboard manually or load the example dashboard from this repo.

Menu -> Load -> Advanced -> Choose File -> Dashboard.json

Testing

Run logstash in debug mode:

$ stop logstash
$ /opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/alerta.conf -vvv

To view alerts as they would be sent to elasticsearch uncomment the stdout{} line in the logstash.conf file above.

List elasticsearch indices:

http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v

Vagrant

Alternatively, make use of the vagrant-try-alerta repo...

$ git clone https://github.com/alerta/vagrant-try-alerta.git
$ cd vagrant-try-alerta
$ vagrant up alerta-kibana
$ vagrant ssh alerta-kibana

License

Copyright (c) 2014,2016 Nick Satterly. Available under the MIT License.