Setting Up A Syslog Drain

Register for a Pivotal Cloud Foundry account. http://run.pivotal.io/

This lab requires that you have a Paper Trail account. It's free to signup. https://papertrailapp.com/

Use the cf-cli to login to your Pivotal Cloud Foundry account.

Cleanup any lingering resources.

You will have an app called user-api in /root.

Execute a cf push to bootstrap your environment with the manifest file.

Login to Paper Trail.

Create a new system https://papertrailapp.com/systems/new.

Select I User Cloud Foundry enter a name and create a new system.

Use the URL and port to create a new user provided service.

Bind the service to the user api.

Restart the user api to for the service to take effect.

Verify that log data is draining into Paper Trail.

Once complete deprovision user api.