Regular expression to not match the logs with unreadable characters in syslog-ng

Question

I am getting these kind of lines with other relevant log lines in the logs

/M��P���������
M�bM���������
�?�@���������
�S��T���������
��bM���������
E��F���������
22��O���������
��9���������
_������������

These lines are non-readable so I want to exclude these all log lines.

Sample log lines looks like

Aug 18,etc message...

So basically what I am trying to achieve is something like below:

{netmask(192.168.0.1/32) and not(match("\W+))};

The pattern for a non-letter at the start of the string is `^[^A-Za-z]` or `^\P{L}` or `^[^[:alpha:]]` — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 18 '23 at 09:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '23 at 09:55

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You could exclude lines with non-ascii characters, if that's what you want.

Could look like this (I guess):

{netmask(192.168.0.1/32) and not(match('[\x80-\xff]'))};

Note: I used single ' quotes in this example.
If you use " double-quotes, you have to use \\ instead of \.

answered Aug 21 '23 at 09:55

Jay

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