r7insight_php

With these simple steps you can send your PHP application logs to the Insight Platform.

• r7insight_php
  • Insight Platform Setup
  • Composer install
  • Parameter Setup
  • Adding a Custom Host Name and Host ID sent in your PHP log events
  • Code Setup

Insight Platform Setup

Once you have made your account on the Insight platform, log in and use the "Quick Add" option in the "Add data" page to add a new log, using the Token TCP option.

The Log Token and data endpoint will be displayed.
The Log Token is a unique identifier for the log allowing for write-only access. Take note of these.

Composer install

This package is also available on Composer.

You can install this package by doing the following:

$ composer require rapid7/r7insight_php

Parameter Setup

Inside the r7insight_php folder, open r7insight.php and fill in the LOG_TOKEN parameter.

LOG_TOKEN is the token you copied earlier from the Insight Platform UI, and associates that logger with the log in Insight Platform.

In the REGION field, enter the region code - e.g. us, eu, ca, au etc.

You can also supply both of these by the use of environment variables with the same name -- LOG_TOKEN and REGION.

Adding a Custom Host Name and Host ID sent in your PHP log events

To set a custom Host Name that will appear in your PHP log events as Key / Value pairs:

Inside the r7insight_php folder, open r7insight.php and fill in the parameters as follows:

$HOST_NAME_ENABLED = true;

$HOST_NAME = "Custom_host_name_here";

$HOST_ID = "Custom_ID_here_12345";

The $HOST_NAME constant can be left as an empty string, and the library will automatically attempt to assign a host name from your local host machine and use that as the custom host name.

To set a custom Host ID that will appear in your PHP log events as Key / Value pairs: Enter a value instead of the empty string in $HOST_ID = "";
If no $HOST_ID is set and the empty string is left unaltered, no Host ID or Key / Value pairing will appear in your PHP logs.

If you want to send log events in JSON format, then set the $USE_JSON field to true. If you set it to false, then the logs will be sent in KVP (Key Value Pair) format.

Code Setup

Now you need to download/clone the library from GitHub and place the folder in your apps directory.

To use it in your code, enter the following lines, making changes accordingly if you place it in a different location.

require dirname(__FILE__) . './r7insight_php/r7insight.php';

// The following levels are available
$log->debug("Isn't that the fault of the voters?");
$log->info("That's because sometimes I go by my maiden name.");
$log->notice("Give me the strongest thing you got.");
$log->crit("Awfully big moustache.");
$log->error("Yeah, and when I find the guy that did it...");
$log->alert("That's ok. I sometimes go by my maiden name.");
$log->emerg("Every time I order out.");