a.k.a. Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana ; refer to elastic.co
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Parsing or Reformatting Logs before feeding them to Splunk or Elastic Search
I have very complex log messages, that I want to reduce to the most important fields in order to save quota.
The log messages are multiline and there is a lot of redundant information in them. A solution is to script something to reformat these logs…

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rsyslog 8.24 and multiple omfwd
I want to forward *.* to remote host via TCP/IP.
Also, I have local0 facility where messages are plain JSON messages and they has to be forwarded to same host, but other port (and uses same certificate for gTLS).
I've made a config:
# provides UDP…

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logstash charset error (gelf)
I had some trouble with Logstash and Nginx (all running on Docker).
On my docker-compose file i was trying to enable logging from Nginx container to Logstash:
nginx:
container_name: nginx
image: nginx:latest
volumes:
-…

Vlad Bubnov
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Import Elasticsearch 2.X data to 6.X?
I've got some data/logs from Elasticsearch 2.4 & I've got a new Elasticsearch 6.X running.
What's the best/correct way to import data from 2.X to 6.x?
Thanks!

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Info sent from Logstash via elastic output not showing in Kibana, but file output works fine - what am I doing wrong?
I have an "ELK stack" configuration and, at first, was doing the standard 'filebeat' syslog feeding from logstash with the elasticsearch output plugin. It worked just fine.
Now I have added a TCP input port (with assigned "type" for this data so as…

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Logstash creating many tcp connections for single hosts
Logstash: 5.3.0
nxlog: nxlog-ce-2.9.1716
Checking nestat I have like 300 established connections even though I have only about 50 hosts.
I have like 40 connections for some hosts when I the client's side there is only one active connection.
I added…

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Troubleshooting rsyslog integration with ELK stack
I'm trying to configure rsyslog to send logs to logstash on CentOS. So I was following the tutorial.
However, after setting up, nothing happens. Everything started ok, not error occurred but no logs in elasticsearch.
Here is my…

Sergii Bishyr
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HAProxy in front of logstash broken pipe
I'm setting up ELK stacks with loadbalancing. Haproxy works fine for ES and Kibana but I'm having issues with Logstash.
Here's the haproxy configuration:
frontend logstash
bind 0.0.0.0:5000
mode tcp
option tcpka
option tcplog
log…

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Graylog stream getting events, but is empty
I've started sending Palo Alto logs to Graylog, and a stream rule picks them out by matching "Palo Alto" in a "tags" field (which is how all my stream rules are; a front-end Logstash instance does the tagging before shipping to Graylog).
I know the…

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Can I setup logstash with windows generated certs instead of openssl?
Going through this tutorial.
They use openssl to generate certs to use with logstash ie this command:
sudo openssl req -subj '/CN=ELK_server_fqdn/' -x509 -days 3650 -batch -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private/logstash-forwarder.key -out…

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ELK stack on AWS and web app on Digital Ocean, how and can I grab logs from the later?
I have a python website hosted on digital ocean and ELK stack - Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash - on AWS. I'm trying to understand how to feed the logs files from my python web app on digital ocean to the ELK stack on AWS:
Is it possible to feed…

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Is is possible to pass logs to ELK stack via a ZeroMQ connection?
I have just started learning about the ELK stack. I know that Logstash can take input from several different sources via filebeat client and put that in ElasticSearch.
Is it possible to pass log data to ELK via a ZeroMQ connection ?
Thanks

joes
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rsyslog TLS on AIX
I am trying to forward logs with rsyslog (8.4.2) on AIX 7.1 and I need to encrypt with TLS. However it seems I need rsyslog-gnutls package. I can't seem to find this package anywhere for AIX. Best I could find is…

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What is "io/console not supported; tty will not be manipulated"?
What is this message and how can I get rid of it?
I am using ELK stack on windows 8. Every thing works just fine but this message which I get whenever I run logstash, buzzes me off.
This is the complete output I get by running logstash on my…

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ELK: LogStash to read log files from remote Samba-mapped network drives
I'm new to ELK, and I would like to set up a solution to index Microsoft IIS and applicative .NET logs with ES.
I'm aware about different approaches:
1) [app servers: log files ➔ Logstash] ➔ [collecting server: Redis ➔ Logstash] ➔ [ES cluster: ES ➔…

Maxim Gueivandov
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