Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:07:59 +0100 From: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net> To: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: AWS CloudWatch Logs Agent Message-ID: <4FFC6F3B-E8A1-49EE-A05A-C6B9B0A615FF@rafal.net>
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First of all: thank you Colin, and thank you all, for making FreeBSD = available in AWS and the other clouds. This is my first email here, so = let me briefly introduce myself and the context. I am evaluating FreeBSD = in AWS as a replacement for our existing (small) AWS fleet of CentOS 7 = and Amazon Linux machines that serve my company (Project Botticelli Ltd) = online training business, which focuses on analytics and what is now = called data science (my main profession) but used to be called data = mining and just plain-old statistics. Colin Percival has already been very helpful in giving me some guidance = with regards to his configinit scripts, which I am happy to say are = working well and making machine launch and teardown easy. While my three = devs have been working hard on the new web front and back ends, and our = app API, all of which we hope to ship in a month, it is down to me to = focus on the sysadmin part of moving the server infrastructure to = FreeBSD. So far, working with FreeBSD has been a pleasure and a = wonderful connection to my old Unix-days' roots. One nice AWS component is its CloudWatch Logs engine that collects = streams of syslog-generated data and centralises them, with a simple but = usable UI. AWS provides an automated set-up for the awslogs daemon = agent, but from a cursory look at the code, although parts of it are = plain Python, much of it is very Linux-focused shell script, with much = regard for runlevels, logrotate etc and not immediately usable as an = rc.d script. I was wondering if anyone has hacked that script yet to run on FreeBSD = or if you have any other suggestions how to help me get AWS CloudWatch = Logs integrated into FreeBSD running on AWS. Many thanks for your help and my best regards from Ireland PS. I have posted a request on the forum for opinions regarding FreeBSD = in the cloud, in case anyone is interested: = https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/62190/ -- Rafal Lukawiecki Data Scientist and Director=20 Project Botticelli Ltd=
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