Integrating Nifi with Graylog

Graylog is gaining popularity as a log exploration tool.  So this begs the question, how do you intelligently route your logs to the tool?  The answer is nifi.

Recently for a client I explored integrating nifi with Graylog. There is an AWS EC2 image for a full graylog install with the documentation for this to be found here https://docs.graylog.org/en/1.3/pages/installation/aws.html

• Configure a GELF HTTP connector to these settings

  https://docs.graylog.org/en/1.3/pages/sending_data.html

  
• Execute script of a a Python Script generating Dummy JSONS '{"short_message":"CHRIS HERE", "host":"example.org", "facility":"test", "_foo":"bar"}'
• Have a nifi HTTP post processor pointed at the Graylog input
  

• Confirm messages have been received by graylog