Scheck Connection to Alibaba Cloud Log Service Solution¶

• Version: 1.0.7-7-g251eead
• Release Date: 2023-04-06 11:17:57
• Supported Operating Systems: windows/amd64, windows/386, linux/arm, linux/arm64, linux/386, linux/amd64

Prerequisites¶

• Have Alibaba Cloud RAM management permissions
• Scheck version greater than v1.0.1

Obtain Alibaba Cloud Log Service Key¶

Alibaba Cloud Official Documentation

• Create a User

Log in to RAM Access Control - left sidebar [Identity Management - Users] - create user

Create a user, set the login name to scheck, select Open API Call Access

Make sure to save the AccessKey ID and AccessKey Secret.

• Authorization

Log in to RAM Access Control - left sidebar [Permission Management - Authorization] - add authorization

Grant AliyunLogFullAccess to the scheck account.

Configuration Steps¶

Modify Configuration¶

• For Linux hosts, modify /usr/local/scheck/scheck.conf; for Windows hosts, modify C:\\Program Files\\scheck\scheck.conf

  [scoutput.alisls]
    enable = true # Enable configuration
    endpoint = "cn-hangzhou.log.aliyuncs.com" # Set Alibaba Cloud endpoint
    access_key_id = "LTAI5tHb2vMLV4axxxxxx"  # Obtained from previous step
    access_key_secret = "FNUkk52gWsZHKauXPg24jxxxx" # Obtained from previous step
    project_name = "zhuyun-scheck" # Customizable
    log_store_name = "scheck"      # Customizable

• Parameter Description

Restart and Verify¶

• Restart scheck

  $systemctl restart scheck

• Add a new user to test if the configuration is successful

$ useradd test

• Check on the Alibaba Cloud Console, under the zhuyun-scheck project

Grafana Integration with Alibaba Cloud Log Service¶

Official Documentation

Install Grafana¶

1. Install Grafana via Docker¶

docker run \
    --name=grafana \
    --volume=~/grafana/data/:/var/lib/grafana \
    -p 3000:3000 \
    grafana/grafana:8.0.6

2. Install and Configure aliyun-log-grafana-datasource-plugin¶

~/grafana/data/ as the persistent path

$wget -o aliyun-log-grafana-datasource-plugin-master.zip  https://github.com/aliyun/aliyun-log-grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/tag/2.8?spm=a2c4g.11186623.2.13.7a703e0anzkNTh&file=2.8
$unzip 2.8.zip
$mv aliyun-log-grafana-datasource-plugin-2.8 ~/grafana/data/plugins/aliyun-log-grafana-datasource-plugin
# Modify configuration
$docker exec -i grafana  sed -i '/;allow_loading_unsigned_plugins/i\allow_loading_unsigned_plugins \= aliyun-log-service-datasource,grafana-log-service-datasource
' /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
# Restart container
$docker restart grafana

3. Configure Data Source¶

• Log in to http://127.0.0.1:3000 with username: admin and password: admin
• Visit http://127.0.0.1:3000/datasources, add a data source and choose log-service-datasource, set Name to sc, and fill in the information below.

4. Import scheck Template¶

• Download Template

• Visit http://127.0.0.1:3000/dashboard/import and upload the JSON template