Questions tagged [logstash-grok]

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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SQL Server data as input to logstash

I would like to connect SQL Server with logstash as input. Is it possible or we have any plugin to achieve this. Input{ SQL{ } } Thanks in advance
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logstash: grok parse failure

I have this config file input { stdin {} file { type => "txt" path => "C:\Users\Gck\Desktop\logsatash_practice\input.txt" start_position=>"beginning" } } filter { grok { match => [ "message", "%{DATE:timestamp}…
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logstash filter definition for an extended apache log

I'm trying to configure a logstash filter for an extented apache log filter definition. It is basically the 'combined' LogFormat with some additional field, here is the apache log format definition: LogFormat "%h %{X-LB-Client-IP}i %l %u %m %t…
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Trouble with log stash @timestamp

I have set up ELK on my laptop and I am having trouble with the timestamp field. My input file looks like this ... (one line so far) Chckpoint 502 10.189.7.138 Allow 18 Mar 2015 15:00:01 My code looks like this .. input { file { path =>…
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Logstash output to ElasticSearch With Valid Types

ELK Stack has been successfully setup. using grokdebug.herokuapp.com my gork patterns are also valid and getting Dumped into ElasticSearch filter { if [type] == "some_log" { grok { match => { "message" => '%{WORD:word_1} %{TIME:time_1}…
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how to get missing field from apache log into event

I'm trying to setup logstash to parse apache logs in a custom format. This grok filter works, except that %{URIHOST} does not get into the imported data. grok { match => { "message" => "%{URIHOST} %{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" } } A raw line of the log…
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logstash grok filter pattern not found

I've been attempting to create some custom grok patterns for logstash. Most of them work fine, but one has got me stumped. The pattern is: WINUSER (?<=User:\s)\w+ Here is a sample of the data that is being searched: 2015-04-14 14:06:18…
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Multi-value fields only store last value

I'm relatively new to ELK and grok. I'm trying to parse a log file that may contain 1 or more repetitions of the same value. For example the log file could contain: value1;value2;value3; value1; value1;value2;value3;value4;........value900; For this…
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Logstash - Error log event date going as string to ES

I'm using Logstash to forward error logs from app servers to ES. Everything is working fine except that log timestamp going as string to ES. Here is my log format [Date:2015-03-25 01:29:09,554] [ThreadId:4432] [HostName:AEPLWEB1] [Host:(null)]…
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Understanding grok-pattern to configure LogStash for Advanced IIS log

I switched from normal IIS log to Advanced IIS log and have some trouble parsing a log entry correctly to my Elastic Search / Kibana Setup. The problematic entry is the cs_cookie entry. The entry for that value can be like…
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_grokparsefailure with ELK

I am new to programming/Linux/ELK etc. My background is Windows so this project is a big leap for me. I seem to have reached a point that I cannot overcome and would like another set of eyes to review my work. When viewing the output in Kibana 3 all…
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Looking for keywords within a grok %{QS:message}

I've searched up and down and was wondering or if this is even an option that is possible within Grok. So my log files are filtered just fine. Except, the %{QS:message} is what contains my ERROR, WARNING, POST, GET etc. I want to be able to query…
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Logstash grok pattern to filter custom Log message

I am new to logstash and I want to filter fileds from log message. Here is log message: [2015-03-16 13:12:05,130] INFO - LogMediator ServiceName = TestService_v1,SystemDate = 3/16/15 1:12 PM,ServerIP = 127.0.1.1,ServerHost =…
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Pattern failure with grok due a longer integer in a column

I have used grok debugger to get the top format working and it is being seen fine by elasticsearch. Eventually, when a log line like the one below hit it shoots out a tag with "grokparsefailure" due to the extra space before each integer (I'm…
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Grok parse error while parsing Apache logs

OK, so I am in need of some help in figuring out why Logstash is giving me a parse error when I have tested it on the Grok Debugger. This has to do with a custom log from Apache. Below is the raw log entry: 57.85.212.139 tst.testing.com…
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