Update content packs using autoloading functionality

Graylog Central (peer support)
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Hi there,

I’m using ansible to provision our graylog stack and am wondering what the best way would be to automate input/stream creation.

I started using the content_packs_loader_enabled property in the server.conf but this only appears to be useful the very first time the stack is created. If I add more contentpacks to the file that should be atuoloaded, they don’t get picked up. Ideally we don’t want to have to reprovision these servers to add a contentpack, but rather update them in palce. I did see this https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/1551
and am wondering if my use case would help answer the edge cases raised…

The only other way I can think to do this is a series of requests through the rest api (but this is much less clean than if graylog could just upload the changed configuration through the autoloader)

Is there another way to do this?
Thanks!

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Hey @tulara,

AFAIK the REST-Api is the only usable way to programmatically create inputs/streams/etc.
But you could open up a feature request on Github if you want this added. :slight_smile:

Greetings,
Phil

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in addition to that - the autoloader will be gone in 3.0

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oh thanks @jan, though i’m a bit sad to hear it good to know it’s coming.

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as you can see, Content Packs will get a major update in 3.0

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thanks @jan
actually i was only interested in content packs as a means to automate input creation without the overhead of rest calls in our automation. we might end up using them as a means for creating multiple things at once though.

thanks again

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