Enable HAProxy logging on Centos

Enable HAProxy logging on CentOS
By default, HAProxy will not log to files unless we make some modifications
1. Create rsyslog configuration file
nano /etc/rsyslog.d/haproxy.conf
Add these lines to the file
# Enable UDP port 514 to listen to incoming log messages from haproxy
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514
$template Haproxy,"%msg%\n"
local0.=info -/var/log/haproxy/haproxy.log;Haproxy
local0.notice -/var/log/haproxy/admin.log;Haproxy
# don't log anywhere else
local0.* ~
Restart rsyslog service
/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart
Ref: http://blog.hintcafe.com/post/33689067443/haproxy-logging-with-rsyslog-on-linux
2. Modify the log rotate config to match the new folder:
nano /etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
Change
/var/log/haproxy.log {
daily
rotate 10
missingok
[...]
to
/var/log/haproxy/*.log {
daily
rotate 10
missingok
[...]
Now we can check if HAProxy logging is working.
tail -f /var/log/haproxy/haproxy.log

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global to have these messages end up in /var/log/haproxy.log you will need to:

1) configure syslog to accept network log events. This is done by adding the '-r' option to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in /etc/sysconfig/syslog

2) configure local2 events to go to the /var/log/haproxy.log file. A line like the following can be added to /etc/sysconfig/syslog
local2.* /var/log/haproxy.log

In haproxy conf file add
log 127.0.0.1 local2 info