Log files Exposed as APIs

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

Luis de Niz — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:23:43 GMT

Appian Cloud recently released a new feature that would allow you to stream logs to a centralized location in your network. This feature works using a push-based model and logs are transmitted in real-time from the Appian Cloud instances to a syslog receiver where you can digest/transform the files with your tool of your choice. See docs for more details: docs.appian.com/.../Log_Streaming_for_Appian_Cloud.html

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

harshav — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:12:19 GMT

Oh ok cool paul let me check with Appian support thanks for the note

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

paulc919 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:17:14 GMT

Hi ... it was built as a private plug in for Aviva ( I think ) so not sure I can share it with you ... might be worth contacting Appian to see if there is something on the radar that might help.

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

harshav420 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:11:21 GMT

Hi Paul,

Can the Custom plugin can be shared, I also have the same kind of requirement.

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

paulc919 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:52:51 GMT

Hi

With a lot of help from Appian PS, a custom plug in was created for our Appian installation which monitors the log files behind the scenes and pushes data on change - we use this mechanism to provide a system health dashboard alongside our other systems we use. We've then added further customization so we can configure which log files the plug in watches etc.

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

harshav — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:42:53 GMT

Hi Justin,
Thanks for the reply,

Our thought is that we are planning to show these logs in our DevOps Platform and we are planning to show all the systems used in our application in a single place.

So our main intention is to get the logs from Appian cloud.

May be I think that I will be using the second approach where I can pull the data to read the logs and get those pushed into an external system.

Please let me know if this approach will work

Thank you :)

RE: Log files Exposed as APIs

Justin Watts — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:34:27 GMT

Is there some specific data you are trying to process? Or are you just trying to get all logs into another log processor/SIEM tool like Splunk or similar? Understanding what you want to do with that data may present some alternate options for the use case.

By default, the Appian Cloud logs aren't available directly through an API. To work around this, there are two options I've seen customers use:

1) Pull-based - Leverage a smart service (such as Log Reader -forum.appian.com/.../summary) to pull information, and then expose that pulled data through an Appian Web API.

2) Push-based - On some interval, use a smart service to read records from logs and push to an external source.

Regardless, there is a lot of data in Appian logs, so I would be conservative on what I'd feed to another system.