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Executable binary

This page shows you how to quickly get started with Parseable, by downloading and running the Parseable executable binary. We'll start Parseable server in local-store mode, and then insert and read some sample data using SQL.

Start Parseable

Download the relevant binary and start Parseable in local-store mode with the following commands:

curl -fsSL https://logg.ing/install | bash
parseable local-store
Important

Parseable listens on the port 8000. You can access Parseable UI at http://localhost:8000. The default credentials are admin and admin.

Ingest log data

Send your first log event to the log stream demo using below command.

curl --location --request POST \
'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/ingest' \
--header 'X-P-META-meta1: value1' \
--header 'X-P-TAG-tag1: value1' \
--header 'X-P-Stream: demo' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '[
{
"id": "434a5f5e-2f5f-11ed-a261-0242ac120002",
"datetime": "2023-01-05T07:20:50.52Z",
"host": "153.10.110.81",
"user-identifier": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) Firefox/64.0",
"method": "PUT",
"status": 500,
"referrer": "http://www.google.com/"
}
]'

Parseable uses log streams to organize log data. Here we posted a sample log data to the log stream demo, by adding the header X-P-Stream: demo in the request.

We also added metadata and tags to the log event with X-P-META- and X-P-TAG- headers in the request. For example, the below command adds meta1=value1 and tag1=value1 to the log event. It also posts a sample log data to the log stream demo.

Metadata is primarily used for defining extra information for a log event, while tags are used for organizing events. For example, severity=warn and severity=error are good examples of metadata, while environment=prod and environment=dev are good examples of tags.

Query log data

To query the data via Console, login at http://localhost:8000 and select the log stream demo and correct time stamp.

For complete Parseable API documentation, refer to Parseable API Ref Docs.

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