haminer

haminer is a library and program to parse and forward HAProxy HTTP logs.

The HTTP logs is HTTP request that received by HAProxy frontend and forwarded to backend. In default format, it looks like these (split into multi lines, for readability):

<158>Sep  4 17:08:47 haproxy[109530]: 185.83.144.103:46376
  [04/Sep/2022:17:08:47.264] www~ be_kilabit/kilabit-0.0/0/1/2/3 200 89 - -
  ---- 5/5/0/0/0 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"

See HTTP log format documentation for more information.

Currently, there are supported database where haminer can forward the parsed log: Influxdb, Questdb, and Postgresql. Haminer support Influxdb v1 and v2.

 +---------+  UDP  +---------+      +-----------+
 | HAProxy |------>| haminer |----->| Influxdb  |
 +---------+       +---------+      | / Questdb |
                                    +-----------+

In Influxdb, the log are stored as measurement called haproxy. In Questdb, the log are stored as table called haproxy.

The following fields are stored as tags (in Influxdb) or symbol (in Questdb): host, server, backend, frontend, http_method, http_url, http_query, http_proto, http_status, term_state, client_ip, client_port.

And the following fields are stored as fields (in Influxdb) or values (in Questdb): time_req, time_wait, time_connect, time_rsp, time_all, conn_active, conn_frontend, conn_backend, conn_server, conn_retries, queue_server, queue_backend, bytes_read.

Once the log has been accumulated, we can query the data. For example, with Questdb we can count each visited URL using the following query,

select backend, http_url, count(*) as visit from 'haproxy'
group by backend, http_url
order by visit desc;

Installation

Building from source

Requirements,

Go for building the source code
git for downloading the source code

Get the source code using git,

$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~shulhan/haminer
$ cd haminer
$ make

The binary name is haminer build in the current directory.

Pre-build package

The Arch Linux package is available at build.kilabit.info. Add the following repository to your pacman.conf,

[build.kilabit.info]
Server = https://build.kilabit.info/aur

To install it,

$ sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm haminer-git

Configuration

haminer by default will load it's config from /etc/haminer.conf, if not specified when running the program.

See haminer.conf for an example of possible configuration and their explanation.

Forwarders

Currently, there are several database where haminer can forward the parsed log: Influxdb, Questdb, and Postgresql. Haminer support Influxdb v1 and v2.

Influxdb v1

For v1, you need to create the user and database first,

$ influx
> CREATE USER "haminer" WITH PASSWORD 'haminer'
> CREATE DATABASE haminer
> GRANT ALL ON haminer TO haminer

Example of forwarder configuration,

[forwarder "influxd"]
version = v1
url = http://127.0.0.1:8086
bucket = haminer
user = haminer
password  = haminer

Influxdb v2

For v2,

$ sudo influx bucket create \
	--name haminer \
	--retention 30d

For v2, the example configuration is

[forwarder "influxd"]
version = v2
url = http://127.0.0.1:8086
org = $org
bucket = haminer
token = $token

Questdb

For Questdb the configuration is quite simple,

[forwarder "questdb"]
url = udp://127.0.0.1:9009

We did not need to create the table, Questdb will handled that automatically.

Postgresql

For Postgresql, you need to create the user and database first, for example,

postgres$ psql
postgres=> CREATE ROLE haminer PASSWORD 'haminer' CREATEDB INHERIT LOGIN;
postgres=> CREATE DATABASE haminer OWNER haminer;
postgres=> \q

The configuration only need the Data Source Name (DSN),

[forwarder "postgresql"]
url = postgres://<user>:<pass>@<host>/<database>?sslmode=<require|verify-full|verify-ca|disable>

Deployment

Copy configuration from $SOURCE/cmd/haminer/haminer/conf to /etc/haminer.conf

Update haminer configuration in /etc/haminer.conf. For example,

[haminer]
listen = 127.0.0.1:5140

...

Add one or more provider to the configuration as the example above.

Update HAProxy config to forward log to UDP port other than rsyslog. For example,

global
	...
	log 127.0.0.1:5140 local3
	...

Then reload or restart HAProxy.

Run the haminer program,

$ haminer

or use a systemd service.

$ sudo systemctl enable haminer
$ sudo systemctl start  haminer

Development

https://git.sr.ht/~shulhan/haminer:: Link to the source code.

https://lists.sr.ht/~shulhan/haminer:: Link to development and discussion.

https://todo.sr.ht/~shulhan/haminer:: Link to submit an issue, feedback, or request for new feature.

Changelog:: History of each release.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.