Questions tagged [nxlog]
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Linux files permissions denied on log files
I have installed nxlog to send my logs to a graylog server. It works fine, but I have a denied permission on the logs of my HIDS Ossec.
My process nxlog (launched by collector-sidecar) run as root :
# ps -ef | grep collector
root 1869 1 0…

Sorcha
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nxlog fails to connect, and never retries
I'm having an issue with nxlog, when trying to connect over network. It seems it is linked with misconfigured network (this is on a virtual machine, within Vagrant)
Error message is
ERROR couldn't connect to udp socket on 192.168.41.2:514; A socket…

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nxlog get logs from applications and services logs
i am having issues getting data of an event log , located on the applications and services Logs. I have put a query in the nxlog conf file that get the erros,warning,critical logs from the application event log but it doesnt work.
Any help would…

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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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Match the SourceName set in nxlog in syslog-ng
This one is driving me a bit crazy. How do I route a message from nxlog received by syslog-ng based on the program name? It should be self explanatory but it isn't working correctly. The messages are dropped into my general log file for syslog-ng…

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NxLog's 'and' Logic
I currently have NxLog running on various Domain Controllers pulling out login/logout events.
Exec if $TargetUserName =~ /(\S+\$|user1|user2|user3|user4)/ drop(); \
else if ($EventID == 4624 or $EventID == 4625 or $EventID == 4648 or $EventID…

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Nxlog - Collecting data from SQL Table
Looking to collect log information being written to a MSSQL Server table and forward it to Graylog using nxlog or similar.
I see a lot of information about checking logs with nxlog but nothing related to how this could be done, does anyone know if…

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Nxlog pipe scheduled command output
I'm trying to read the output of the last command in Nxlog. I would like to run last on the utmp file on regular intervals. In other words I want to schedule a shell command to run with a time interval and pipe the output as a log event. In yet…

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Forwarding Application Logs using nxlog
I want to parse the Request URL field in message of application Event Logs by nxlog to kibana but i am not able to parse it as a seperate field.
Please suggest what to do in it.

Arunima Agarwal
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Use nxlog to parse a sophos text file and send to a syslog server
I have a windows server 2012 r2 machine with sophos. Each day there is a scan from sophos and the information is appended to the log "sav.txt".
Output example (Some info changed):
20150710 205446 Using detection data version 5.16 (detection…

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Problems using SSL input with NXLog
TL;DR summary: NXLog won't load my certificate - why?
I've set up an NXlog CE server to act as an encrypted entrypoint for a Graylog server. After creating a self-signed certificate and adding it to the configuration, I get an unexpected error in…

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Forwarding Application and Services Logs using nxlog
Using nxlog 'im_mseventlog' module I'm able to forward all Windows Logs (Application, Security, System... ) logs to the remote syslog server. But I'm not able to forward eventlogs present under 'Application and Service Logs -> Microsoft -> Windows…

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NXLog unable to read complete .csv file
I try to work out why NXLog can't read the complete .csf file witch has the same name but gets edited every 12 hours by windows for a export.
conf file of NXLog:
#define ROOT C:\Program Files\nxlog
define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog
Moduledir…

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How can I collect Active Directory Domain Service events and DNS events with Nxlog?
My problem is I cannot collect ADDS or DNS events with Nxlog and send them to an ELK server. In the Nxlog config for the DC and DNS server I have the following Query
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NXLOG shipper and Logstash alert to NAGIOS
i am looking solution how to ship the choosen log using nxlog shipper to logstash and send alert to nagios.
there is many log pattern in that file, i want to monitor this type of log like below :
2015-03-04 09:54:55.298 [178] Statistic …

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