Supported Ouptputs

The LMA collector can forward part or all of the processed Heka messages to any kind of external system, provided that the system supports a protocol-based interface such as HTTP, SMTP or AMQP.

The supported backends are described hereunder.

Elasticsearch

The LMA collector is able to send Log Messages and Notification Messages to Elasticsearch.

There is one index per day and per type of message:

  • Index for log messages is log-<YYYY-MM-DD>.
  • Index for notification messages is notification-<YYYY-MM-DD>.

InfluxDB

The LMA collector is able to send Metric Messages to InfluxDB.

Metrics are stored in individual series per metric name and hostname. The name of the serie is encoded as <Fields[hostname]>.<Fields[name]>.