[chef] Re: Troubleshooting report/error handlers not appearing to send reports?

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Peter Norton 
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 wrote:
> I've enabled the gelf report handler per the instructions in the
> chef_handler cookbook and the chef-gelf cookbook.
>
> I've got an odd situation.  I'm putting in our syslog server
> explicitly, so a host is set.  The run starts like this:
>
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If you're absolutely sure that there are no firewall rules on AWS
blocking traffic (remember GELF is UDP), you can try an alternate
debug method on another host (or on each instance if it matters)

There's a gem I wrote (originally for logstash) called gelfd
(https://github.com/lusis/gelfd)

It comes with a bin script that starts a basic UDP server to catch and
decode all gelf messages. It's easier to move around than your
logstash server and easier than tcpdump machinations (imho).

Again, I'd quadruple check your EC2 rules. Make sure that split
horizon DNS is working properly on ec2 but you can use gelfd to help
debug.

>
> Thanks,
>
> -Peter