This topic describes how to enable logs and metrics in Terraform Enterprise so that you can monitor your non-Replicated deployment. For information about monitoring Replicated deployments, refer to Terraform Enterprise Log Forwarding and Monitoring a Terraform Enterprise Instance in the Replicated administration section.
Complete the following steps to monitor your Terraform Enterprise deployment:
Terraform Enterprise writes logs directly to standard output and standard error. This allows you to forward logs using native tooling for your deployment platform. Terraform Enterprise logs directly to standard output and standard error. This allows you to forward logs using native tooling for your deployment platform.
Log location and formatThe individual service logs are located within the /var/log/terraform-enterprise
directory inside the container.
/var/log/terraform-enterprise
├── atlas.log
├── nginx.log
├── sidekiq.log
└── vault.log
Each service log is a plain text file containing the logs for that service. Logs are collated and logged to the container's standard output in JSON format. Each log entry contains two fields:
component
: The name of the individual service that emitted the log entry.log
: The contents of the log message.An example set of log entries emitted by a Terraform Enterprise container would appear as follows:
{"log":"2023-09-18 02:39:05 [INFO] msg=Worker start worker=AuthenticationTokenDeletionWorker","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18T02:39:05.098Z pid=156 tid=2pos class=FailedJobWorker jid=1010d28ac591979d9decb61f INFO: start","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18 02:39:05 [INFO] msg=Worker start worker=FailedJobWorker","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18 02:39:05 [INFO] msg=Worker finish worker=AuthenticationTokenDeletionWorker","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18T02:39:05.114Z pid=156 tid=2pyc class=AuthenticationTokenDeletionWorker jid=515e8a727a3e4948e9dbb04a elapsed=0.034 INFO: done","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18 02:39:05 [INFO] agent_jobs_processed=[] agent_jobs_errored=[] msg=Worker finish worker=FailedJobWorker","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18T02:39:05.118Z pid=156 tid=2pos class=FailedJobWorker jid=1010d28ac591979d9decb61f queue=default elapsed=0.02 INFO: done","component":"sidekiq"}
{"log":"2023-09-18 02:39:13 [INFO] [3efaaec9-48d4-4517-9fde-127f80faacb4] [dd.service=atlas dd.trace_id=1904097642804464614 dd.span_id=0 ddsource=ruby] {\"method\":\"GET\",\"path\":\"/\",\"format\":\"html\",\"status\":301,\"allocations\":493,\"duration\":0.72,\"view\":0.0,\"db\":0.0,\"location\":\"https://tfe.example.com/session\",\"dd\":{\"trace_id\":\"1904097642804464614\",\"span_id\":\"0\",\"env\":\"\",\"service\":\"atlas\",\"version\":\"\"},\"ddsource\":[\"ruby\"],\"uuid\":\"3efaaec9-48d4-4517-9fde-127f80faacb4\",\"remote_ip\":\"1.2.3.4\",\"request_id\":\"3efaaec9-48d4-4517-9fde-127f80faacb4\",\"user_agent\":\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\",\"user\":null,\"auth_source\":null}","component":"atlas"}
{"log":"2023-09-18 02:39:13 [INFO] [3cb89cfa-7d7f-4aeb-9e60-2256b016a839] [dd.service=atlas dd.trace_id=4370203755142829190 dd.span_id=0 ddsource=ruby] {\"method\":\"GET\",\"path\":\"/session\",\"format\":\"html\",\"status\":200,\"allocations\":3895,\"duration\":7.3,\"view\":5.77,\"db\":0.59,\"dd\":{\"trace_id\":\"4370203755142829190\",\"span_id\":\"0\",\"env\":\"\",\"service\":\"atlas\",\"version\":\"\"},\"ddsource\":[\"ruby\"],\"uuid\":\"3cb89cfa-7d7f-4aeb-9e60-2256b016a839\",\"remote_ip\":\"1.2.3.4\",\"request_id\":\"3cb89cfa-7d7f-4aeb-9e60-2256b016a839\",\"user_agent\":\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\",\"user\":null,\"auth_source\":null}","component":"atlas"}
{"log":"1.2.3.4 - - [18/Sep/2023:02:39:13 +0000] \"GET / HTTP/1.1\" 301 117 \"-\" \"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\"","component":"nginx"}
{"log":"1.2.3.4 - - [18/Sep/2023:02:39:13 +0000] \"GET /session HTTP/1.1\" 200 1735 \"-\" \"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\"","component":"nginx"}
{"log":"Storing the encrypted Vault token in Redis","component":"vault"}
Note that the format of individual service logs is considered an internal implementation detail and is subject to change at any release.
External log forwardingWe strongly recommend using an external log forwarding solution that aligns with your existing observability solutions. Depending on the deployment platform, native or third-party solutions (e.g., host-level monitoring agents) may be an appropriate solution for log aggregation and forwarding. Hashicorp does not provide support for third-party log forwarding solutions.
DockerDocker supports a multitude of logging drivers. See the Docker logging driver list for what options are available.
KubernetesKubernetes supports several architectures for log-forwarding. See the Kubernetes logging architectures documentation for what options are available.
Native log forwardingAs a convenience to aid in migrating from legacy Replicated environments to Flexible Deployments, Terraform Enterprise provides a mechanism to inject FluentBit [OUTPUT]
configuration directives. This allows Terraform Enterprise to use FluentBit plugins to forward log data directly to a number of external destinations.
FluentBit configuration must be provided the Terraform Enterprise container in a file mounted to the container. That is, the configuration value must point to a filesystem path on the Docker container where the FluentBit configuration is located; the configuration must not contain the actual configuration itself. This means it is the responsibility of the Terraform Enterprise operator to mount the config snippet to the Docker container.
Key Description Specific Format Required TFE_LOG_FORWARDING_CONFIG_PATH Filesystem path on the Terraform Enterprise container containing FluentBit[OUTPUT]
configuration Yes, string.
Future deprecation
Exposing FluentBit configuration to Terraform Enterprise operators is provided as a convenience to facilitate migration Terraform Enterprise installations. Customers are encouraged to migrate away from relying on injected FluentBit configuration, and provide their own log forwarding and aggregation solution in their infrastructure. LimitationsThe FluentBit solution provided in legacy Replicated Terraform Enterprise deployments emitted log entries that contained additional metadata keys, such as hostname and IP address. This allowed for additional observability value from log entries, as operators could identify the source of log entries. Unlike Replicated deployments, logs emitted by the FluentBit plugins made available in Terraform Enterprise Flexible Deployments do not contain additional metadata attached to each log entry. This is due to the isolated nature of the FluentBit process within the Terraform Enterprise Docker container; by definition, processes within the Docker container are not exposed to host-level details.
Because of this, we strongly recommend using an external log forwarding solution that aligns with your existing observability solutions. See external log forwarding for further discussion.
Additionally, note that built-in log forwarding is only available for Docker-deployed Terraform Enterprise installations. Terraform Enterprise deployed on Kubernetes does not support leveraging the built-in FluentBit.
Supported external destinationsYou can only forward logs to one of the supported external destinations below. Each supported external destination contains example configuration for convenience.
Amazon CloudWatchSending to Amazon CloudWatch is only supported when Terraform Enterprise is located within AWS due to how Fluent Bit reads AWS credentials.
This example configuration forwards all logs to Amazon CloudWatch. Refer to the cloudwatch_logs
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name cloudwatch_logs
Match *
region us-east-1
log_group_name example-log-group
log_stream_name example-log-stream
auto_create_group On
Note: In Terraform Enterprise installations using AWS external services, Fluent Bit will have access to the same AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
environment variables that are used for object storage.
Sending to Amazon S3 is only supported when Terraform Enterprise is located within AWS due to how Fluent Bit reads AWS credentials.
This example configuration forwards all logs to Amazon S3. Refer to the s3
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name s3
Match *
bucket example-bucket
region us-east-1
total_file_size 250M
s3_key_format /$TAG/%Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S/$UUID.gz
s3_key_format_tag_delimiters .-
Note: In Terraform Enterprise installations using AWS external services, Fluent Bit will have access to the same AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
environment variables that are used for object storage.
This example configuration forwards all logs to Azure Blob Storage. Refer to the azure_blob
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
name azure_blob
match *
account_name example-account-name
shared_key example-access-key
path logs
container_name example-container-name
auto_create_container on
tls on
Azure Log Analytics
This example configuration forwards all logs to Azure Log Analytics. Refer to the azure
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
name azure
match *
Customer_ID example-log-analytics-workspace-id
Shared_Key example-access-key
Datadog
This example configuration forwards all logs to Datadog. Refer to the datadog
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name datadog
Match *
Host http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com
TLS on
compress gzip
apikey example-api-key
dd_service terraform_enterprise
dd_source docker
dd_tags environment:development,owner:engineering
Forward
This example configuration forwards all logs to a listening Fluent Bit or Fluentd instance. Refer to the forward
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name forward
Match *
Host fluent.example.com
Port 24224
Google Cloud Platform Cloud Logging
Sending to Google Cloud Platform Cloud Logging is only supported when Terraform Enterprise is located within GCP due to how Fluent Bit reads GCP credentials.
This example configuration forwards all logs to Google Cloud Platform Cloud Logging (formerly known as Stackdriver). Refer to the stackdriver
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name stackdriver
Match *
location us-east1
namespace terraform_enterprise
node_id example-hostname
resource generic_node
Note: In Terraform Enterprise installations using GCP external services, Fluent Bit will have access to the GOOGLE_SERVICE_CREDENTIALS
environment variable that points to a file containing the same GCP Service Account JSON credentials that are used for object storage.
This example configuration forwards all logs to Splunk Enterprise via the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) interface. Refer to the splunk
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name splunk
Match *
Host example-splunk-hec-endpoint
Port 8088
Splunk_Token example-splunk-token
Syslog
This example configuration forwards all logs to a Syslog-compatible endpoint. Refer to the syslog
Fluent Bit output plugin documentation for more information.
[OUTPUT]
Name syslog
Match *
host example-syslog-host
port 514
mode tcp
syslog_message_key log
syslog_severity_key PRIORITY
syslog_hostname_key _HOSTNAME
syslog_appname_key SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER
syslog_procid_key _PID
Warning
The `syslog_message_key` should not be changed from `log`. If that value is changed, the application will no longer forward logs.Metrics collection is disabled by default. Set the TFE_METRICS_ENABLE
variable to true
in your runtime configuration. Kubernetes and Podman installations do not emit tfe.container.*
metrics. Refer to the configuration reference for additional details.
Terraform Enterprise exposes metrics on a port separate from the application. This allows operators to use network access controls to restrict access to metrics data to authorized consumers, such as a Prometheus server.
By default, metrics are exposed on the following ports:
You can configure the ports by setting the TFE_METRICS_HTTP_PORT
and TFE_METRICS_HTTPS_PORT
environment variables. Refer to the configuration reference for additional details.
The HTTP and HTTPS ports serve metrics on the path /metrics
.
By default, requests to the /metrics endpoint will emit metrics in JSON format. Use the query parameter ?format=prometheus
to emit metrics in Prometheus format.
When using Prometheus, we recommend using a scrape interval shorter than the expiration time of 15 seconds to ensure that Terraform Enterprise reports data points from short-lived processes.
Refer to the metrics reference for details about the metrics Terraform Enterprise emits.
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