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anoop1
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Mar 15, 2018

LOG Forwarding to Kafka by BIGIP

Hi All,

 

How can we send the Syslog to the kafka server on a particular topic from BIGIP.

 

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM

3 Replies

  • Anesh's avatar
    Anesh
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    Mar 15, 2018

    you can refer the following K13080, do you have specific use case, that is not mentioned in the article?

     

  • lizunjjg's avatar
    lizunjjg
    Icon for Cirrus rankCirrus
    Jan 28, 2019

    Kafka's log format is jeson.F5's log format is string. You can't send the log directly to kafka. kafka have logstash

     

    • Qiang_LI's avatar
      Qiang_LI
      Ret. Employee
      Sep 30, 2021

      I'm Qiang LI in China Northeast and want to know how to sent the log to Kafka. If you have time, pls call me 13904021313 or mail to q.li@f5.com. Many thankls!