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Grok is an abstraction on top of regular expressions to allow easy parsing of unstructured text into structured and queryable form.

Parse arbitrary text and structure it.

Grok is a great way to parse unstructured log data into something structured and queryable.

This tool is perfect for syslog logs, apache and other webserver logs, mysql logs, and in general, any log format that is generally written for humans and not computer consumption.

Logstash ships with about 120 patterns by default. You can find them here: https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-patterns-core/tree/master/patterns. You can add your own trivially. (See the patterns_dir setting)

If you need help building patterns to match your logs, you will find at:

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Selective parsing of csv file using logstash

I am trying to feed data into elasticsearch from csv files, through logstash. These csv files contain the first row as the column names. Is there any particular way to skip that row while parsing the file? Are there any conditionals/filters that I…
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Debugging new logstash grok filters before full use

I have been following this guide: http://deviantony.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/logstash-debug-configuration/ Which I'm hoping will help me test my logstash filters to see if I get the desired output before using them full time. As part of the guide it…
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Logstash grok filter help - fixed position file

I have a fixed position (column) file, where there is no delimiter which separates the fields. Each field has its own start position and length. Here is the example of the…
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Parse multiline JSON with grok in logstash

I've got a JSON of the format: { "SOURCE":"Source A", "Model":"ModelABC", "Qty":"3" } I'm trying to parse this JSON using logstash. Basically I want the logstash output to be a list of key:value pairs that I can analyze using kibana. I…
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How to parse using Grok from Java.. Is there any example available.?

I have seen Grok being very strong and lethal in parsing the log data. I wanted to use Grok for log parsing in our application, which is in java.. How can i connect/work with Grok from Java.?
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How do I make AWS Glue crawler with custom classifier skip the first line of the log file?

I'm new to glue and I'm trying to make the crawler feature extract database tables from some log files. The problem is that the files have a different first row. I have defined a custom Grok classifier that works well as long as I delete the first…
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writing grok pattern to split key value pairs

This is my first experience with using grok and elasticsearch. I'm trying to write a grok file to do parse the following line. 2017-07-25 10:48:23,477 [[api-my-app-v1-20.0.0].apiHttpListenerConfig.worker.58] INFO …
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Logstash pattern for nginx error log

This is my sample error log: 2017/03/29 17:32:56 [error] 21924#21924: *212595 access forbidden by rule, client: 172.31.0.14, server: , request: "POST /app/etc/local.xml HTTP/1.1", host: "www.overcart.com" I want a grok pattern that matches this. I…
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how to replace logstash @timestamp with log timestamp

My time stamp in the logs are in the format as below 2016-04-07 18:11:38.169 which is yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS This log file is not live one (stored/old one), and I am trying to replace this timpestamp with logstash @timestamp value for the…
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Logstash grok filter doesn't work for the last field

With Logstash 2.3.3, grok filter doesn't work for the last field. To reproduce the problem, create test.conf as follows: input { file { path => "/Users/izeye/Applications/logstash-2.3.3/test.log" } } filter { grok { match => {…
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logstash http_poller first URL request's response should be input to second URL's request param

I have two URLs (due to security concern i will explain by using dummy) a> https://xyz.company.com/ui/api/token b> https://xyz.company.com/request/transaction?date=2016-01-21&token= When you hit url mentioned in point 'a' it will…
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logstash grok filter for logs with arbitrary attribute-value pairs

(This is related to my other question logstash grok filter for custom logs ) I have a logfile whose lines look something like: 14:46:16.603 [http-nio-8080-exec-4] INFO METERING - msg=93e6dd5e-c009-46b3-b9eb-f753ee3b889a CREATE_JOB…
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Grok pattern for different types of log in a logfile

I am trying to write grok pattern for my log file which has three different types of logs, I want to put a filter on the type names (TYPE1,TYPE2,TYPE3) and then write three different grok patterns for this one log file. Also, my log file is a csv…
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Logstash grok square brackets

I'm trying to get some sort of grok pattern to work with the following logging format : *Sun 07:05:18.372 INFO [main] [userID] perf - 0ms - select x from y The problem I'm having is the field in square brackets that I've annotated here as userID.…
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How to extract substring using regex given only the index?

Is there any way to extract part of string/sentence, given only the from and to index of starting and ending position of the substring? Eg: "this is an example00001. and so on." and I need to get substring from position 10 to 15 (ie., examp) using…
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