kinesis.md

1. make sure an inbound rule is set up for ssh on port 22 from anywhere
2. sudo yum update
3. sudo yum install –y aws-kinesis-agent
4. vi /etc/aws-kinesis/agent.json and enter the following:

   {
     "cloudwatch.emitMetrics": true,
     "kinesis.endpoint": "",
     "firehose.endpoint": "https://firehose.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
   
     "flows": [
       {
         "filePattern": "/tmp/app.log*",
         "kinesisStream": "yourkinesisstream",
         "partitionKeyOption": "RANDOM"
       },
       {
         "filePattern": "/tmp/*.log",
         "deliveryStream": "log-gen"
       }
     ]
   }
   

5. sudo service aws-kinesis-agent start
6. tail -f /var/log/aws-kinesis-agent/aws-kinesis-agent.log check if it's up then exit if ok
7. gem install apache-loggen
8. cd /tmp
9. apache-loggen --rate=1000 > test.log