For the puppet agent, you can always try tdis rsyslog syntax:
if $programname == 'puppet-agent' then /var/log/puppet.log
if $programname == 'puppet-agent' then ~

Same for the master process.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM, eric odell <cirell...@gmail.com> wrote:

> How to get all puppet agent/master logs to rsyslog? intend to ship all
> puppet agent/master messages to central loghost and parse with logstash and
> ship to elasticsearch. Currently puppet logs some messages to
> /var/log/messages via rsyslog  while puppet daemons write directly to
> /var/log/puppet/*.
>
> puppet client/master syslogfacility  set to daemon:
>
> puppet master --configprint syslogfacility
> daemon
>
> Thought that setting rsyslog to catch all logs with syslog facility of
> daemon:
>
> grep daemon /etc/rsyslog.conf
> daemon.*        /var/log/daemon
>
> should do the trick but this logs very little in /var/log/daemon while
> puppet continues to log most everything to /var/log/puppet/*
>
> Also puppet logging to rsyslog may be poor choice when dealing with long
> multiline error messages...
> Have considered running logstash directly on each puppet node/master but
> want to see if I can ship all puppet logs to central rsyslog server which
> already has logstash running...
>
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