Graylog Archiver

Archives graylog indices to backup_dir, keeping the latest ones (max_indices).

For example, if you have the following indices:

• graylog_49
• graylog_48
• graylog_47

And max_indices is set to 1, it will archive and delete 48 and 47.

Install

Install Python 3 and use pip:

pip3 install graylog-archiver

Usage

Configure path.repo in elasticsearch.yml to allow the creation of backup
repositories at backup_dir.

Example:

path.repo: /srv/backups/elasticsearch

Create a configuration file for graylog archiver graylog_archiver.json:

{
  "elasticsearch": {
    "hosts": "localhost"
  },
  "max_indices": 3,
  "backup_dir": "/srv/backups/elasticsearch/graylog",
  "delete": false
}

Run with:

graylog-archiver

Use your strategy to backup:

rsync -r --remove-source-files /srv/backups/elasticsearch/graylog backups@backups.company.com:/srv/backups/graylog

Test

Start docker containers:

cd test && docker-compose up -d

Setup Graylog with an input and send some logs.

Run graylog_archiver with the test configuration:

graylog-archiver --config test/config.json