Export Logs to External Archive Storage

Mezmo supports exporting logs to external storage providers, including AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Digital Ocean Spaces, Google Cloud Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, and OpenStack Swift. This topic provides information on configuring both your storage provider and Mezmo Archiving.

AWS S3

To export your logs to an S3 bucket, make sure that you have an AWS account with access to S3. If you need to create a new S3 bucket for log storage, follow the instructions in the AWS S3 Getting Started Guide.

Add Mezmo as a Grantee for Your S3 Bucket Access Control List

To set up log archiving for your bucket, follow the AWS instructions for Using the S3 console to set ACL permissions for a bucket. In those instructions, follow the steps “To grant access to another AWS account” and use this canonical ID for Mezmo:

659c621e261e7ffa5d8f925bbe9fe1698f3637878e96bc1a9e7216838799b71a

Enable these permissions for Mezmo:

• Objects List
• Objects Write
• Bucket ACL Read
• Bucket ACL Write

Configure Mezmo

1. In the Mezmo web app, navigate to Settings > Archiving > Manage.
2. Toggle Enable Logging to On.
3. In the Provider menu, select AWS S3.
4. Enter the name of your S3 bucket, and then click Save.

Azure Blob Storage

To export your logs to Azure Blob Storage, make sure that you have an Azure account with access to storage accounts.

1. Create a Storage Account on Microsoft Azure.
2. Once created, select your storage account, then, under Settings click Access Keys.
3. Create a key if you do not already have one.
4. In the Mezmo web app, navigate to Settings > Archiving > Manage.
5. Toggle Enable Logging to On.
6. In the Provider menu, select Azure Blob.
7. Under Settings , enter your Account Name and Account Key, and then click Save.

Digital Ocean Spaces

To export your logs to Digital Ocean Spaces, make sure that you have a Digital Ocean account with access to storage.

1. Create a new space (or use an existing one) in Digital Ocean Spaces.
2. Create a new spaces access key in Digital Ocean Applications & API. Make sure to save the access key and secret key.
3. In the Mezmo web app, navigate to Settings > Archiving > Manage.
4. Toggle Enable Logging to On.
5. In the Provider menu, select Digital Ocean Spaces.
6. Under Settings, input your Space Name, Endpoint, AccessKey, and SecretKey, and then click Save.

You can find your region in your spaces URL. For examplehttps://my-mezmo-bucket.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com has the region nyc3.

Google Cloud Storage

To export your logs to Google Cloud Storage, make that you have a Google Cloud Platform account and project with access to storage.

1. Make sure that Google Cloud Storage JSON API is enabled.
2. Create a new bucket (or use an existing one) in Google Cloud Storage.
3. Update the permissions of the bucket and add a new member archiver@logdna-internal-oauth.iam.gserviceaccount.com with the role of Storage Admin.
4. In the Mezmo web app, navigate to Settings > Archiving > Manage.
5. Toggle Enable Logging to On.
6. In the Provider menu, select Google Cloud.
7. Under Settings, enter your ProjectId and Bucket, and then click Save.

IBM Cloud Object Storage

To export your logs to IBM Cloud Object Storage Archiving, make sure that you have an IBM Cloud account with access to storage.

1. Create a new object storage service (or use an existing one) in IBM Cloud Object Storage.
2. Create a new bucket (or use an existing one) in your service for Mezmo dump files.
3. In the Mezmo web app, navigate to Settings > Archiving > Manage.
4. Toggle Enable Logging to On.
5. In the Provider menu, select IBM Cloud Object Storage.
6. Under Settings, enter your Bucket, Public Endpoint, API Key, and Instance ID, and then click Save.

OpenStack Swift

To export your logs to OpenStack Swift, make sure that you have an OpenStack account with access to Swift.

1. Set up Swift by following the instructions in the Swift documentation.
2. In the Mezmo web app, navigate to Settings > Archiving > Manage.
3. Toggle Enable Logging to On.
4. In the Provider menu, select OpenStack Swift.
5. Under Settings, enter your Username, Password, Auth URL, Tenant Name, and a date for Expire After, then click Save.