Mezmo Agent Configuration for Kubernetes

When using the Mezmo Logging Agent within a Kubernetes cluster, the configuration is a bit different than the standard v2 agent configuration.

The only editable file is the environmental variables section of the daemonset configurations.

Configure the Agent

Find the effective config at beginning of agent pod log. It should look like this:

http:
  host: logs.logdna.com
  endpoint: /logs/agent
  use_ssl: true
  timeout: 10000
  use_compression: true
  gzip_level: 2
  params:
    hostname: main-mac-ubuntu
    mac: ~
    ip: ~
    tags: ~
  body_size: 2097152
log:
  dirs:
    - /home/dmitri/SOURCE/TMP/root/subdir_missing
  include:
    glob:
      - "*.log"
    regex: []
  exclude:
    glob: []
    regex: []
  lookback: start
  log_metric_server_stats: ~
journald:
  systemd_journal_tailer: ~
startup: {}

Copy this config file and put it in a new text file, use vim <name of file> for example (depending on what text editor you use) Then to this file, you’ll add the below params.

http: 
	params: 
		retrybase delay_ms: 100000 
		retry_step_delay_ms: 10000

Apply this config file to your Kubernetes cluster.

Then modify the envs section of the DaemonSet you deployed with the env. variable LOGDNACONFIGFILE = <full_path_to_config_yaml>