| Centralized Log Analysis |
| ======================== |
| |
| Objective |
| --------- |
| |
| Operators should be able to view logs from all the VOLTHA components as |
| well as from whitebox OLT devices in a single stream. |
| |
| Solution Approach For VOLTHA Ecosystem |
| -------------------------------------- |
| |
| The solution we have chosen EFK (elasticsearch, kibana and |
| fluentd-elasticsearch) setup for voltha enables the Operator to push |
| logs from all VOLTHA components. |
| |
| To deploy VOLTHA with the EFK stack follow |
| `these instructions <../voltha-helm-charts#enable-log-correlation-in-voltha-optional>`_. |
| |
| This will deploy Efk stack with a single node elasticsearch and |
| kibana instance will be deployed and a fluentd-elasticsearch pod will be |
| deployed on each node that allows workloads to be scheduled. |
| |
| The number of deployed Pods will be dependent on the value of Deployment |
| Type and SCHEDULE\_ON\_CONTROL\_NODES flag as shown in the below table. |
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| .. figure:: ../_static/fluentd-pods.png |
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| :height: 1.50000in |
| |
| **To start using Kibana, In your browser ,navigate to |
| http://<k8s\_node\_ip>:<exposed\_port>.** Then you can search for events |
| in the *Discover* section. |
| |
| Solution Approach For Whitebox OLT Device |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| |
| The solution approach we have chosen is to install td-agent (fluentd |
| variant) directly on OLT device for capturing and transmitting logs to |
| elasticsearch pod running in voltha cluster. |
| |
| Created custom td-agent configuration file to handle the format of |
| involved log files using right input plugins for openolt process, dev |
| mgmt daemon, system logs and elasticsearch output plugin.You can find |
| custom td-agent configuration file in |
| `*https://github.com/opencord/openolt/tree/master/logConf* <https://github.com/opencord/openolt/tree/master/logConf>`__ |
| and find installation steps in |
| `*https://github.com/opencord/openolt/tree/master* <https://github.com/opencord/openolt/tree/master/logConf>`__ |
| README. |
| |
| Log Collection from VOLTHA Ecosystem and Whitebox OLT Device |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| Below diagram depicts the log collection from voltha components and |
| whitebox OLT device through EFK.The fluentd pod running kind-voltha |
| setup collects logs from all the voltha components and push to |
| elasticsearch pod.The td-agent(fluentd variant) service running on |
| whitebox OLT device capture the logs from openolt agent process, device |
| mgmt daemon process and system logs and transmits the logs to the |
| elasticsearch pod running in voltha cluster over tcp protocol. |
| |
| .. figure:: ../_static/centralize-logging.png |
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| :height: 2.50000in |
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| Secure EFK setup and transport of Logs from OLT device |
| ------------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| The Operator can enhance the setup by making configuration changes with |
| the requirement. |
| |
| The Authentication, Authorization, and Security features for EFK can be |
| enabled via X-Pack plugin and Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in |
| Elasticsearch.The transmission of logs from the Whitebox OLT device can |
| be secured by enabling tls/ssl encryption with EFK setup and |
| td-agent.Refer following link for Security features. |
| `*https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/elasticsearch-security.html* <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/elasticsearch-security.html>`__ |
| |
| To enable TLS/SSL encryption for elasticsearch pod refer the following |
| link |
| |
| `*https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch/examples/security* <https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch/examples/security>`__ |
| |
| To enable TLS/SSL encryption for kibana pod refer the following link |
| |
| `*https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/kibana/examples/security* <https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/kibana/examples/security>`__ |
| |
| To enable TLS/SSL encryption for fluentd pod and td-agent service refer |
| following link |
| |
| `*https://github.com/kiwigrid/helm-charts/tree/master/charts/fluentd-elasticsearch* <https://github.com/kiwigrid/helm-charts/tree/master/charts/fluentd-elasticsearch>`__ |
| |
| Note: create certs directory in /etc/td-agent on the OLT device and copy |
| the elastic-ca.pem certificate. |
| |
| Archive of Logs |
| --------------- |
| |
| There are various mechanisms available with EFK to save data.For example |
| operators can use **reporting feature** to generate reports of saved |
| search as CSV documents, that can be transferred to a support |
| organization via email.You can save searches with time-boxed or with |
| filtering the required fields then generate the report.To use reporting |
| features refer the following link |
| `*https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/reporting-getting-started.html* <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/reporting-getting-started.html>`__ |
| |
| Note: By default a 10mb of CSV file can be generated.To generate > 10mb |
| of file enable x-pack plugin and rbac.To generate larger files need to |
| have a bigger cluster configuration for the elasticsearch pod.The java |
| heap space,cpu and memory need to be increased with the CSV file size. |