J Thomas has written an OpenWhisk forwarder, which is another OpenWhisk function. This function will push the OpenWhisk actions log to the local ELK stack. Let's see how this is done. First, we need to clone the public repository that he has created, make a few changes, and then deploy the function to the Bluemix portal for the particular space. This function will push the logs into the local ELK using burrow tunneled host and port:
- Git clone the j thomas repository using the following code:
$ git clone https://github.com/jthomas/OpenWhisk-logstash-forwarder.git
- Export the OpenWhisk auth and api host for deploying to the Bluemix portal. You need to log into the portal to get the latest details using the following ...