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Export Data from Runtime Manager to External Analytics Tools

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You can configure the Runtime Manager agent to export data to external analytics tools.

Using either the Runtime Manager cloud console or Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition, you can:

If you plan to export your payload’s contents to be logged, consider that not all formats can be exported. See Payload Formats and Logging.

Sending data to third-party tools is not supported for applications deployed on CloudHub. You can use the CloudHub custom log appender to integrate with your logging system. See Integrate with Your Logging System Using Log4j.

Prerequisites

Ensure that the following software is installed:

  • Mule runtime engine

    To forward events from API analytics to both an external tool and Anypoint Platform, the following version is required:

    • Mule version 4.2.0 or later

  • API gateway standalone version 2.1.0 or later

  • Runtime Manager agent 1.2.0 or later

    To send data to Splunk using the HTTP Event Collector or over TCP, Runtime Manager agent 1.3.1 or later is required.

    For information about updating the agent, see Install or Update the Runtime Manager Agent.

Splunk Prerequisites

To send data to Splunk using the HTTP Event Collector, you must first set up the data input and obtain a token from Splunk:

  1. Sign in to your Splunk account.

  2. Navigate to Settings > Data Inputs.

  3. For the HTTP Event Collector type, click Add new.

    Add new option for the HTTP Event Collector in the Splunk Data Inputs page
    Figure 1. The arrow shows the Add new option for the HTTP Event Collector in the Splunk Data Inputs page.

  4. Follow the steps to set up the data input and obtain the token.

To send data to Splunk over TCP, you must first enable the input source in Splunk:

  1. Sign in to your Splunk account.

  2. Navigate to Settings > Data Inputs.

  3. For the TCP type, click Add new.

    Add new option for TCP in the Splunk Data Inputs page
    Figure 2. The arrow shows the Add new option for TCP in the Splunk Data Inputs page.

  4. Follow the steps to set up the data input.

For more information about setting up data inputs, see the Splunk documentation.

Logging-Level Options

The following logging levels are available when configuring integration with Splunk or ELK:

Business Events

Flow start or end, async messages, exceptions, and custom events

Tracking

Business Events plus exception strategy, and endpoint messages

Debug

Tracking plus message processor begin and end

Integrate with Splunk

With Splunk, you can capture and index Mule event notification data into a searchable repository from which you can then generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.

  1. Configure the Agent in Your Splunk Instance.

  2. Configure Splunk Integration in Runtime Manager.

Configure the Agent in Your Splunk Instance

To integrate with Splunk, you must create and configure a new source type on your Splunk instance that can parse the HTTP events sent by the Runtime Manager agent.

  1. If necessary, create the $SPLUNK_HOME/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/props.conf file.

  2. Append the following source type to the props.conf file:

    [mule]
TRUNCATE = 0
LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+)
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS = JSON
KV_MODE = JSON
category = Mule Splunk Integration
description = Mule Agent event information

  3. Restart your Splunk instance for your changes to take effect.

Configure Splunk Integration in Runtime Manager

To send Mule event notifications from the Runtime Manager agent to Splunk:

  1. If you plan to send data to Splunk using the HTTP Event Collector or over TCP, check the Splunk Prerequisites.

  2. From Anypoint Platform, select Runtime Manager.

  3. Click the Servers tab.

  4. Click the Type column to display the details pane for the server you want to configure.

  5. Click Manage Server.

  6. Click the Plugins tab:

    Event Tracking options
    Figure 3. The screenshot shows (1) the Event Tracking options, (2) the Level menu, and (3) the gear icon on the server Plugins tab.

  7. Under Event Tracking, enable Splunk.

  8. Select the type of information to send from the Level menu.

    See Logging-Level Options.

  9. Click the gear icon to specify your Splunk configuration:

    Protocol option
    Figure 4. The screenshot shows (1) the protocol option, (2) the data input types, and (3) the Show more options switch in the Splunk configuration window.

    See Splunk Configuration Options.

  10. Specify the host (IP address or hostname) and management port of the server where Splunk is running.

    • To send data to Splunk using the REST API, select Rest API and enter the username and password for your Splunk account.

    • To send data to Splunk over TCP, select tcp from the menu and enter the username and password for your Splunk account.

    • To send data to Splunk using the HTTP Event Collector, select HTTP Event Collector and paste the token from Splunk in the Token field:

      HTTP Event Collector option and Token field in the Splunk configuration window
      Figure 5. The screenshot shows (1) the HTTP Event Collector option and (2) the Token field in the Splunk configuration window.

  11. If you want, click Show more options to specify formatting properties for the sent data:

    Expanded options in the Splunk configuration window
    Figure 6. The arrow shows the expanded options in the Splunk configuration window.

    See Splunk Configuration Options.

    The SSL Protocol option applies only to the REST API data input type.

    If you set values for the Splunk index, Splunk source, and Splunk source type when you registered your data input in Splunk, any values you specify in this window overwrite those values.

  12. Click Apply to save your changes.

Splunk Configuration Options

Splunk integration includes the following configuration options:

Field Description Default Value

Username (Required)

Username to connect to Splunk

Password (Required)

Password associated with the Splunk username

host (Required)

IP address or hostname of the server where Splunk is running

port

Splunk management port

8089

protocol

Protocol for the connection to the Splunk management port

Possible values are http, https, and tcp.

https

SSL Protocol (REST API only)

SSL Security Protocol to use for the HTTPS connection

Possible values are TLSv1_2, TLSv1_1, TLSv1, and SSLv3.

TLSv1_2

Splunk Index

Name of the Splunk index to send all events to

If the index doesn’t exist, the internal handler creates it if the permissions associated with the username are adequate.

main

Splunk Source

The source used for events sent to Splunk

mule-events

Splunk Type

The source type used for events sent to Splunk

mule

Date Format

Date format to use to format the timestamp

yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssSZ

Integrate with Your ELK Stack

The ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack enables you to store, search, and analyze the log data.

You can configure the Runtime Manager agent to send event notifications from Mule flows to a configurable log file. Logstash first captures and indexes the data. Then, you can use Elasticsearch and Kibana to generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.

Configure the Log File for Your ELK Stack

To send event notifications to the folder from which your ELK stack reads:

  1. From Anypoint Platform, select Runtime Manager.

  2. Click the Servers tab.

  3. Click the Type column to display the details pane for the server you want to configure.

  4. Click Manage Server.

  5. Click the Plugins tab:

    Event Tracking options
    Figure 7. The screenshot shows (1) the Event Tracking options, (2) the Level menu, and (3) the gear icon on the server Plugins tab.

  6. Select the type of information to send from the Level menu.

    See Logging-Level Options.

  7. Under Event Tracking, enable ELK.

  8. Click the gear icon to configure the log file location for ELK:

    Log file location and Show more options switch in the ELK configuration window
    Figure 8. The screenshot shows (1) the log file location and (2) the Show more options switch in the ELK configuration window.

    The default location is $MULE_HOME/logs/events.log, where $MULE_HOME is the location specified by the -Dmule.home parameter in the wrapper.conf file. To change the default location, specify the absolute path for the location of your ELK log file, such as /var/logs/elk/events.log. The specified directory, such as /var/logs/elk, must exist.

  9. If you want, click Show more options to specify additional properties for the log file:

    Expanded options in the ELK configuration window
    Figure 9. The arrow shows the expanded options in the ELK configuration window.

  10. Click Apply to save your changes.

The event tracking log file ($MULE_HOME/logs/events-%d{yyyy-dd-MM}-%i.log) is not automatically deleted. You must manually delete the logs periodically.

Integrate API Analytics with Splunk or ELK

To integrate API Analytics with Splunk or ELK:

  1. Configure the API Gateway.

  2. Configure API Analytics to Connect with Splunk or ELK.

If you configure the API gateway wrapper.conf (Step 1) but don’t assign an external destination for your data (Step 2), the analytics data accumulates in a queue in the API gateway server, which could cause the system to crash.

Configure the API Gateway

To set up the connection to external analytics tools, configure the API gateway:

  1. In your API gateway standalone directory, open the conf/wrapper.conf file.

    The .<n> value in the code snippets refers to an integer that is unique within wrapper.conf.

  2. Ensure that the following property is set to true and that the line is uncommented:

    wrapper.java.additional.<n>=-Danypoint.platform.analytics_enabled=true

  3. Remove the URL from the following line:

    wrapper.java.additional.<n>=-Danypoint.platform.analytics_base_uri=https://analytics-ingest.anypoint.mulesoft.com

    The line now looks like the following:

    wrapper.java.additional.<n>=-Danypoint.platform.analytics_base_uri=

  4. For Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition, change the anypoint.platform.on_prem parameter to true:

    wrapper.java.additional.<n>=-Danypoint.platform.on_prem=true

    If you are using the Runtime Manager cloud console, leave this parameter set to the default value, false.

Configure Multiple Consumers

For Mule versions 4.2.0 and later, you can forward events to both an external tool and Anypoint Platform.

To configure multiple consumers, add the following line to the wrapper.conf file:

wrapper.java.additional.<n>=-Danypoint.platform.analytics_multiple_consumers_enabled=true

Configure API Analytics to Connect with Splunk or ELK

After you configure your API gateway, configure Splunk or ELK in Runtime Manager:

  1. From Anypoint Platform, select Runtime Manager.

  2. Click the Servers tab.

  3. Click the Type column to display the details pane for the server you want to configure.

  4. Click Manage Server.

  5. Click the Plugins tab:

    API Analytics options on the server Plugins tab.
    Figure 10. The arrow shows the API Analytics options on the server Plugins tab.

  6. Under API Analytics, enable ELK or Splunk.

  7. Click the gear icon and continue with Step 8 in the following sections to complete the configuration:

See Also