HAProxy

Overview

HAProxy is a free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. HAProxy has a lot of features and because it is located between your infrastructure and your clients, it can give you a lot of information about either of them.

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source	Description
Web logs	HAProxy logs provide information about the connected client and the requested resource

HAProxy Configuration

HAProxy Configuration file is created by default when HAProxy is setup on the machine

Note

HAProxy configuration default file haproxy.cfg will be found in the directory /etc/haproxy

By default events are forwarded to /var/lib/haproxy/dev/log then processed by a local rsyslog to store them on /var/log/haproxy.log.

Forward the HAProxy logs to a concentrator

After HAProxy has been setup and configured, the logs have to be sent to a syslog concentrator then forwarded to SEKOIA.IO.

By default, at HAProxy first installation, an rsyslog configuration is created on the repository /etc/rsyslog.d/, it contains the following lines:

# Create an additionnal socket in haproxy's chroot in order to allow logging via 
# /dev/log to chroot'ed HAProxy processes
$AddUnixListenSocket /var/lib/haproxy/dev/log

# Send HAProxy messages to a dedicated logfile
:programname, startswith, "haproxy" {
    /var/log/haproxy.log
    stop
}

You only have to replace the configuration by the following lines:

# Create an additionnal socket in haproxy's chroot in order to allow logging via 
# /dev/log to chroot'ed HAProxy processes
$AddUnixListenSocket /var/lib/haproxy/dev/log

# Use a condition that identifies specifically HaProxy logs that send them to a syslog concentrator
if ($programname startswith 'haproxy') then {
    # Log events locally
    /var/log/haproxy.log

    # Forward HAProxy logs to a concentrator
    action(
    type="omfwd"
    protocol="tcp"
    target="<Concentrator_FQDN_or_IP>"
    port="<Remote_Port>"
    TCP_Framing="octet-counted"
    )
}

For more information on Rsyslog configuration, please consult the next section.

Rsyslog

The reader is invited to consult the Rsyslog Transport documentation to forward these logs to SEKOIA.IO.

Further Reading

• HAProxy Official Documentation