We've released the newest version of the Aptible CLI - v0.19.1 that adds more command line functionality to help you better automate management of Log Drains, Metric Drains and Database Endpoints.

Provisioning and managing Log Drains

Aptible users could provision and manage Log Drains on the dashboard to send their container output, endpoint requests and errors, and SSH session activity to external logging destinations for aggregation, analysis and record keeping.

This new update allows you to also do the same through the CLI.

You can create new Log Drains using the aptible log_drain:create command, with additional options to configure drain destinations and the kind of activity and output you want to capture and send. For example, to create and configure a new Log Drain with Sumologic as the destination, you'd use the following command.

cURLaptible log_drain:create:sumologic HANDLE --url SUMOLOGIC_URL --environment ENVIRONMENT \ [--drain-apps true/false] [--drain_databases true/false] \ [--drain_ephemeral_sessions true/false] [--drain_proxies true/false]

Options: [--url=URL] [--drain-apps], [--no-drain-apps] # Default: true [--drain-databases], [--no-drain-databases] # Default: true [--drain-ephemeral-sessions], [--no-drain-ephemeral-sessions] # Default: true [--drain-proxies], [--no-drain-proxies] # Default: true [--environment=ENVIRONMENT]

Just like with Sumologic, you can provision new Log Drains to Datadog, LogDNA, Papertrail, self-hosted Elasticsearch or to HTTPS and Syslog destinations of your choice.

We've also added supporting features to help your teams see the list of provisioned Log Drains using the aptible log_drain:list command and deprovision any of them with aptible log_drain:deprovision.

Provisioning and managing Metric Drains

Like with Log Drains, you can now add new Metric Drains or manage existing ones through the CLI. Metric Drains allow you to send container performance metrics like disc IOPS, memory and CPU usage to metric aggregators like Datadog for reporting and alerting purposes.

You can create new Metric Drains using the aptible metric_drain:create command. With this, you can send the needed metrics to Datadog, InfluxDB hosted on Aptible, or an InfluxDB hosted anywhere else.

You can also see a list of Metric Drains created in your account using the aptible metric_drain:list command, or deprovision any of them with aptible metric_drain:deprovision .

Managing Database Endpoints

The primary configuration with regards to managing existing Database Endpoints is IP filtering. Just like App Endpoints, Database Endpoints support IP filtering to restrict connections to your database to a set of pre-approved IP addresses. While this was always managed through the UI, the latest CLI update lets you manage IP filters for already provisioned Database Endpoints using the aptible endpoints:database:modify command.

cURLaptible endpoints:database:modify --database DATABASE ENDPOINT_HOSTNAME

Options: [--environment=ENVIRONMENT] [--database=DATABASE] [--ip-whitelist=one two three] # A list of IPv4 sources (addresses or CIDRs) to which to restrict traffic to this Endpoint [--no-ip-whitelist] # Disable IP Whitelist

Download the latest version of the CLI today!