community.general.sumologic callback – Sends task result events to Sumologic

Note

This callback plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.9).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this callback plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.sumologic.

Callback plugin

This plugin is a notification callback. It sends information for a playbook run to other applications, services, or systems. See Callback plugins for more information on callback plugins.

Synopsis

  • This callback plugin will send task results as JSON formatted events to a Sumologic HTTP collector source.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

  • Whitelisting this callback plugin

  • Create a HTTP collector source in Sumologic and specify a custom timestamp format of yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ and a custom timestamp locator of "timestamp": "(.*)"

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

url

string

URL to the Sumologic HTTP collector source.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_sumologic]
url = VALUE

  • Environment variable: SUMOLOGIC_URL

Examples

examples: |
  To enable, add this to your ansible.cfg file in the defaults block
    [defaults]
    callback_whitelist = community.general.sumologic

  Set the environment variable
    export SUMOLOGIC_URL=https://endpoint1.collection.us2.sumologic.com/receiver/v1/http/R8moSv1d8EW9LAUFZJ6dbxCFxwLH6kfCdcBfddlfxCbLuL-BN5twcTpMk__pYy_cDmp==

  Set the ansible.cfg variable in the callback_sumologic block
    [callback_sumologic]
    url = https://endpoint1.collection.us2.sumologic.com/receiver/v1/http/R8moSv1d8EW9LAUFZJ6dbxCFxwLH6kfCdcBfddlfxCbLuL-BN5twcTpMk__pYy_cDmp==

Authors

  • Ryan Currah (@ryancurrah)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.