Running

Set environmental variables

1. Save .env.example as .env with your correct values
2. Load .env by your method of choice

Verify environmental variables are set

Before you run terraform commands

echo $TF_VAR_sumologic_access_id echo $TF_VAR_sumologic_access_key echo $TF_VAR_sumologic_notification_email

Before you run curl commands

echo $SUMOLOGIC_ENDPOINT

Initialize the provider

terraform init

Preview infrastructure changes

terraform plan -out=tfplan

Apply infrastructure changes

terraform apply "tfplan"

Testing

View Live Tail

1. Go to https://service.sumologic.com/livetail
2. Add _sourceCategory=terraform*
3. Click run button

Send a message

1. Open terminal
2. Run curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -d "Hello World" $SUMOLOGIC_ENDPOINT

Log Search

1. Go to https://service.sumologic.com/log-search
2. Add _sourceCategory=terraform*
3. Click search button

Send 200, 400, and 500 messages from JSON log files

1. Open terminal
2. Run curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @example-json-200.log $SUMOLOGIC_ENDPOINT
3. Run curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @example-json-400.log $SUMOLOGIC_ENDPOINT
4. Run curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @example-json-500.log $SUMOLOGIC_ENDPOINT

This should result in you getting two emails after 5 minutes letting you know the monitor has reached critical and warning status.

Great success!