Event Forwarders
Security Requirements and Controls
Change event forwarding
permission
Event forwarders are owned by an organization and can be shared by
repositories in that organization. You can manage event forwarders from
the Event Forwarder
page, which allows
you to create, edit and delete
Event Forwarders
.
Note
You need root access to perform these actions. See Root Access for more information.
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Figure 97. Event Forwarder UI
Configuring Event Forwarders
Click the
(upper right corner) and select .Under
in the side menu, click .On the
Event forwarders
page, click . A pop-up will open.Figure 98. Event Forwarder Details
Specify the following fields:
Name — The name of your event forwarder.
Description (optional) — This is optional but allows you to specify a description of your event forwarder which may be useful when the event forwarder is shared.
Topic — Specify a name for a new topic and then this topic will be created on the Kafka cluster or provide the name of topic that has already been created on the Kafka cluster.
Properties — Specify the properties to configure the Kafka producer. You must specify at least the
bootstrap.servers
property.
Deselect the Enable event forwarder checkbox (optional) to disable the forwarder.
Click
(optional) to test the configuration.Click Create event forwarder to create the forwarder.
Editing and Deleting Event Forwarders
You can edit and delete event forwarders from this page.
Note
You cannot delete event forwarders which have event forwarding rules associated to them, you will need to remove them from these event forwarding rules first. If you attempt to delete an event forwarder, with rules attached, you will receive an error containing the event forwarding rules that are using the event forwarder.
Click the
(upper right corner) and select .Under
in the side menu, click .On the
Event forwarders
page, click the three dots next to theEvent Forwarder
you want to edit or delete, and click either or .Figure 99. Edit/Delete Event Forwarder
If you are editing a forwarder, click
to save the changes. If you are attempting to delete, you must confirm the operation in the pop-up.
Event Forwarder APIs
See GraphQL API for more information on our APIs. You can use the following queries for event forwarders:
eventForwarders()
You can also use the following mutations:
testKafkaEventForwarder()
The mutation testKafkaEventForwarder() is used to test that LogScale can connect to the configured event forwarder.
Note
You need to have root access to use this API, see Root Access for more information.
Kafka Configuration
To configure an event forwarder, you must specify the Kafka topic as
well as the properties for the
Kafka
producer. You must specify at least the
bootstrap.servers
property.
Below are some example properties:
bootstrap.servers=localhost:3456
batch.size=100
You will have to setup the Kafka server and create the topic yourself, LogScale will only configure a Kafka producer to send messages to the topic.
Warning
If you use the same Kafka server(s) for event forwarding as you use for LogScale, make sure that it has enough resources, otherwise, LogScale performance will be degraded.