Graylog and tomcat

[nabil.lamichhane]

I am new to Tomcat and Graylog… I dont have depth knowledge about both Tomcat and graylog… I want to read tomcat log in graylog … how can i achieve that… I want to learn and do my above task successfully… Any one have time to guid me littel bit in this topic… I dont know where to start from… i want some guidance…

[jochen]

Integrate Tomcat logs to graylog

You can either collect the log files written by Apache Tomcat via Filebeat or NXLOG (also see http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.4/pages/collector_sidecar.html) or configure the logging subsystem of your Apache Tomcat to send logs directly to Graylog, e. g. with a GELF appender: https://github.com/mp911de/logstash-gelf/ https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/logging.html

[nabil.lamichhane]

can i achive this task in vmware work station?.. i have configured one centos 7 machine as tomcat and another as graylog server

[jochen]

@nabil.lamichhane

can i achive this task in vmware work station?

Yes, it doesn’t matter on what type of (virtual) machine Graylog and Apache Tomcat are running in order to configure them correctly.

[nabil.lamichhane]

All following commands should be executed on the remote machine where you want to collect log data from.
This line is from document you have provided… i have to install sidecar_collecter in tomcat(centos 7) server or graylog(centos 7) server?