Overview
SAP Cloud Foundry is a cloud plaform that allows you to create polyglot cloud applications in Cloud Foundry. It contains the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime service, which is based on the open-source application platform managed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
The Cloud Foundry environment enables you to develop new business applications and business services, supporting multiple runtimes, programming languages, libraries, and services. You can leverage a multitude of buildpacks, including community innovations and self-developed buildpacks. It also integrates with SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model (SAP HANA XSA). The
PowerConnect Cloud SAP Cloud Foundry Syslog Input allows any application deployed in SAP Cloud Foundry to send it’s logs to the PowerConnect Cloud agent. These logs are then normalized, transformed and pushed to Splunk.
Data Collected
Syslog log data including logged errors and opentracing traces
Status
Beta
Configuration
Login to the PowerConnect Cloud UI
Click on the Inputs tab
Click Add New
Under the Platform menu choose CF
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Then under syslog select cf-syslog-http
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Fill in the details for the Syslog Input, the System ID is mapped to the source field in Splunk
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Click Save
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The Input should now be created and visible in the Inputs table
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Click the unhide button next to the Token and note down the value
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The token value will be used to authenticate the syslog data coming from the SAP Cloud Foundry applications
The next step is to bind the PowerConnect Cloud agent syslog endpoint to any application deployed on Cloud Foundry you wish to monitor
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