# Phase 1 ## Infromation for preeper - OpenSearch Kubernetes Service name ``` root@k8s-cp-01:~# k get svc -n observability NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE brilliant-opensearch-cluster-master ClusterIP 10.43.44.32 9200/TCP,9300/TCP,9600/TCP 4d18h brilliant-opensearch-cluster-master-headless ClusterIP None 9200/TCP,9300/TCP,9600/TCP 4d18h brilliant-opensearch-dashboard-opensearch-dashboards ClusterIP 10.43.225.4 5601/TCP,9601/TCP 15h root@k8s-cp-01:~# k get svc -n ingress-nginx NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE ingress-nginx-controller LoadBalancer 10.43.211.10 80:31599/TCP,443:31186/TCP 26d ingress-nginx-controller-admission ClusterIP 10.43.204.151 443/TCP 26d ingress-nginx-controller-metrics ClusterIP 10.43.119.183 10254/TCP 26d root@k8s-cp-01:~# ``` - OpenSearch HTTPS port *Mentioned above* - CA certificate *CA Certificate is in the server monitoring/opensearch-pki* *There is another certificate ``` apiVersion: v1 data: root-ca.pem: 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kind: Secret metadata: annotations: kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: | 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creationTimestamp: "2026-08-03T13:45:31Z" name: opensearch-dashboard-ca namespace: observability resourceVersion: "4485295" uid: 7fba4407-7eb1-456a-a10c-e8500630df2e type: Opaque ``` - Ingestion username/password *username: logger* *password: Enp129s0f0-l0gin* ``` root@k8s-cp-01:~# k get secret -n observability prepper-creds -o yaml apiVersion: v1 data: logger: RW5wMTI5czBmMC1sMGdnM3I= kind: Secret metadata: annotations: kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: | {"apiVersion":"v1","data":{"logger":"RW5wMTI5czBmMC1sMGdnM3I="},"kind":"Secret","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"prepper-creds","namespace":"observability"}} creationTimestamp: "2026-08-04T06:17:58Z" name: prepper-creds namespace: observability resourceVersion: "4604982" uid: 6592aff6-3e6b-45a1-9953-348c647ca8d3 type: Opaque root@k8s-cp-01:~# ``` - Target index name *I am not understanding this* We will use dedicated ingestion user # Phase 2 ### Data Prepper pipeline: ``` cpanel-log-pipeline: source: http: path: /logs ssl: true sink: - opensearch: hosts: ["brilliant-opensearch-cluster-master:9200"] insecure: false username: logger password: ${LOGGER_PASSWORD} index_type: custom index: cpanel-test-%{yyyy.MM.dd} ssl: true ``` log paths of cpanel: ##### System logs (/var/log) /var/log/apache2/ /var/log/audit/ /var/log/auth.log /var/log/bootstrap.log /var/log/chkservd.log /var/log/clamav/ /var/log/cpanel-install.log /var/log/cpanel-server-traffic/ /var/log/dmesg /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/exim_mainlog /var/log/exim_paniclog /var/log/exim_rejectlog /var/log/fail2ban.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/lfd.log /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log /var/log/munin/ /var/log/mysql/ /var/log/named/ /var/log/private/ /var/log/quota_enable.log /var/log/sw-cp-server/ /var/log/syslog ##### cPanel logs (/usr/local/cpanel/logs) /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/api_tokens_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/backup_restore_manager_error_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/backup_restore_manager_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/build_locale_databases_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup/ /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup_transport_history.log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup_transporter/ /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup_transporter.log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpdavd_error_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpdavd_session_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd.log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd_errors.log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpwrapd_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/dnsadmin_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/incoming_http_requests.log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/php-fpm/ /usr/local/cpanel/logs/queueprocd.log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/secpol_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/session_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/spamd_error_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/splitlogs_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/stats_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/tailwatchd_log /usr/local/cpanel/logs/update_analysis # Phase 3 I used values.yaml for creating the resources