Install Graylog Collector from source

Manual Setup

1. Install Java with version above 1.7
2. Download the latest collector release. (find download links in the collector repository README)
3. Unzip collector tgz file to target location and rename
    /opt/graylog-collector
4. cp config/collector.conf.example to config/collector.conf
    /opt/graylog-collector/config
5. Update server-url in collector.conf to correct Graylog server address (required for registration)
6. Update file input configuration with the correct log files
7. Update outputs->gelf-tcp with the correct Graylog server address (required for sending GELF messages)
8. Start command
cd /op/graylog-collector
bin/graylog-collector run -f config/collector.conf
9. Login web interface and create new input gelf-tcp port 12201

Sample configure

#  vi /opt/graylog-collector/config/collector.conf
server-url = "http://10.10.10.10:12900"
collector-id = "file:config/collector-id"

host-name = "srv-web-06"

inputs {
  apache-log {
    type = "file"
    path = "/var/log/apache2/access_log"
    outputs = "gelf-tcp"
    message-fields = {
      "program" = "apache2"
      "priority" = 3
    }
  }
}

outputs {
  gelf-tcp {
    type = "gelf"
    host = "10.10.10.10"
    port = 12201
    client-queue-size = 512
    client-connect-timeout = 5000
    client-reconnect-delay = 1000
    client-tcp-no-delay = true
    client-send-buffer-size = 32768
  }
}

Sample received message

Sample input