I'm having issues with Pattern matching with Logstash.
Sample log pattern
[DEBUG] 2021-09-13T23:58:24.361 [http-nio-8080-exec-1] [FB-3D] localhost - [i.i.i.a.f.AuthFilter] :: doFilter :: formName B-3D
Grok Pattern that works
\s?\[%{DATA:loglevel}\] %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:logts} \[%{DATA:threadname}\] \[?%{DATA:formname}\] %{DATA:podname} %{DATA:filler1} \[%{DATA:classname}\] %{GREEDYDATA:fullmesg}
For the sample log mentioned above, the above grok pattern works fine. But I have some log files where the fourth field does not exist 'not even the empty []. I want to know how to handle the same.
Sample log (which is not working using the above pattern)
[DEBUG] 2021-09-13T23:58:22.633 [http-nio-8080-exec-1] localhost - [i.i.i.a.f.AuthFilter] :: Requested going to check the
In the above case, the fourth field [?%{DATA:formname}] does not exist. With the optional condition included in the above grok pattern for formname, it still does not work. It expects the presence of an empty [] field. Is there a way to make the 4th field optional?. I.e pattern to accomodate even if the field does not exist.
Any help on this is much appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
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My grok expression works fine when used with the matching string alone but when I use this grok expression with other grok expressions to capture other data that's also present in the log line, it doesn't match with the same matching string.
Case1: Below grok expression is working fine when running alone for the below log string and the value is captured in the field targetMessage
Log string: Tracking : sent request to msgDestination
Grok expression: (?<targetMessage>^Tracking : (?:received response from|sent request to) msgDestination$)
Case2: When I try to run the expression with other some other data also present in the log string it doesn't work i.e. grok expression doesn't match with the same string as used above.
Log string:
2022-11-26 8:16:39,873 INFO [task.SomeTask] Tracking : sent request to msgDestination : MODULE1|SERVICE1|20220330051054|TASK1
Grok expression: %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp} %{LOGLEVEL:loglevel} \[(?<classname>[^\]]+)\] (?<targetMessage>^Tracking : (?:received response from|sent request to) msgDestination$) : %{WORD:moduleName}\|%{WORD:service}\|%{INT:requestId}\|%{WORD:taskName}
Debug tool used: https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/
If anyone can please suggest what mistake I'm making here?
^ and $ anchor an expression to the start and end of a line respectively. You have both inside the targetMessage custom pattern, and that is in the middle of the line, so neither one matches. Remove both ^ and $
I have a log entry whose last part keeps changing depending on few HTTPS conditions.
sample Logs:
INFO [2021-09-27 23:07:58,632] [dw-1001 - POST /abc/api/v3/pqr/options] [386512709095023:] [ESC[36mUnicornClientESC[0;39m]:
<"type": followed by 11000 characters including space words symbols <----- variable length.
grok pattern:
%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel}\s*\[%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:date}\]\s*\[%{GREEDYDATA:requestinfo}\]\s*\[%{GREEDYDATA:logging_id}\:%{GREEDYDATA:token}\]\s*\[(?<method>[^\]]+)\]\:\s*(?<messagebody>(.|\r|\n)*)
(.|\r|\n)*)
this works fine if the variable part of the log is small, but when a large log is encountered, it throws an exception:
[2021-09-27T17:24:40,867][WARN ][logstash.filters.grok ] Timeout executing grok '%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel}\s*\[%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:date}\]\s*\[%{GREEDYDATA:requestinfo}\]\s*\[%{GREEDYDATA:logging_id}\:%{GREEDYDATA:token}\]\s*\[(?<method>[^\]]+)\]\:\s*(?<messagebody>(.|\r|\n)*)' against field 'message' with value 'Value too large to output (178493 bytes)! First 255 chars are: INFO [2021-09-27 11:50:14,005] [dw-398 - POST /xxxxx/api/v3/xxxxx/options] [e3acfd76-28a6-0000-0946-0c335230a57e:]
and CPU starts choking and persistent queue increases and Lag in kibana. Any suggestions?
Performance problems in grok and timeouts are not usually a problem when the pattern matches the message, they are a problem when the pattern fails to match.
The first thing to do is anchor your patterns if possible. This blog post has performance data on how effective this is. In your case, when the pattern does not match, grok will start at the beginning of the line to see if LOGLEVEL matches. If it does NOT match, then it will start at the second character of the line and see if LOGLEVEL matches. If it keeps not matching it will have to make thousands of attempts to match the pattern, which is really expensive. If you change your pattern to start with ^%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel}\s*\[ then the ^ means that grok only has to evaluate the match against LOGLEVEL at the start of each line of [message]. If you change it to be "\A%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel}\s*\[ then it will only evaluate the match at the very beginning of the [message] field.
Secondly, if possible, avoid GREEDYDATA except at the end of the pattern. When matching a 10 KB string against a pattern that has multiple GREEDYDATAs, if the pattern does not match then each GREEDYDATA will be tried against thousands of different substrings, resulting in millions of attempts to do the match for each event (it's not quite this simple, but failing to match does get very expensive). Try changing GREEDYDATA to DATA and if it still works then keep it.
Thirdly, if possible, replace GREEDYDATA/DATA with a custom pattern. For example, it appears to me that \[%{GREEDYDATA:requestinfo}\] could be replaced with \[(?<requestinfo>[^\]]+) and I would expect that to be cheaper when the overall pattern does not match.
Fourthly, I would seriously consider using dissect rather than grok
dissect { mapping => { "message" => "%{loglevel->} [%{date}] [%{requestinfo}] [%{logging_id}:%{token}] [%{method}]: %{messagebody}" } }
However, there is a bug in the dissect filter where if "->" is used in the mapping then a single delimiter does not match, multiple delimiters are required. Thus that %{loglevel->} would match against INFO [2021, but not against ERROR [2021. I usually do
mutate { gsub => [ "message", "\s+", " " ] }
and remove the -> to workaround this. dissect is far less flexible and far less powerful than grok, which makes is much cheaper. Note that dissect will create empty fields, like grok with keep_empty_captures enabled, so you will get a [token] field that contains "" for that message.
I am new with logstash and grok filters. I am trying to parse a string from an Apache Access Log, with a grok filter in logstash, where the username is part of the access log in the following format:
name1.name2.name3.namex.id
I want to build a new field called USERNAME where it is name1.name2.name3.namex with the id stripped off. I have it working, but the problem is that the number of names are variable. Sometimes there are 3 names (lastname.firstname.middlename) and sometimes there are 4 names (lastname.firstname.middlename.suffix - SMITH.GEORGE.ALLEN.JR
%{WORD:lastname}.%{WORD:firstname}.%{WORD:middle}.%{WORD:id}
When there are 4 names or more it does not parse correctly. I was hoping someone can help me out with the right grok filter. I know I am missing something probably pretty simple.
You could use two patterns, adding another one that matches when there are 4 fields:
%{WORD:lastname}.%{WORD:firstname}.%{WORD:middle}.%{WORD:suffix}.%{WORD:id}
But in this case, you're creating fields that it sounds like you don't even want.
How about a pattern that splits off the ID, leaving everything in front of it, perhaps:
%{DATA:name}.%{INT}
I am using https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/ to build grok filters for logstash, but even though grokdebug shows corrected parsed message, my kibana showing _grokparsefailure
message [2015-12-01 08:53:16] app.INFO: Calories 4 [] []
pattern %{SYSLOG5424SD} %{JAVACLASS}: %{WORD} %{INT} %{GREEDYDATA}
What am I doing wrong? Notice that first filter with tag "google" and GREEDYDATA works, and second always fails
Ok so I found the solution. Correct pattern is:
\[%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp}\] %{DATA}%{LOGLEVEL:level}: Calories %{WORD:calories_count} %{GREEDYDATA:msg}
Even tough I used https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com to find the pattern, it was completely irrelevant.
i am trying to parse the below log
2015-07-07T17:51:30.091+0530,857,SelectAppointment,Non HTTP response code: java.net.URISyntaxException,FALSE,8917,20,20,0,1,1,byuiepsperflg01
Now I am unable to parse Non HTTP response code: java.net.URISyntaxException in one field. Please help be build the pattern
This is the pattern I'm using
%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:log_timestamp}\,%{INT:elapsed}\,%{WORD:label}\,%{INT:responsecode}\,%{WORD:responsemessage}\,%{WORD:success}\,%{SPACE:faliusemessage}\,%{INT:bytes}\,%{INT:grpThreads}\,%{INT:allThreads}\,%{INT:Latency}\,%{INT:SampleCount}\,%{INT:ErrorCount}\,%{WORD:Hostname}
If you paste your input and pattern into the grok debugger, it says "Compile ERROR". It might be an SO problem, but you had some weird characters in your pattern ("<200c><200b>").
The trick to building custom patterns is to start at the left side and pull one piece off at a time. With that, you would notice that this partial pattern works:
%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:log_timestamp},%{INT:elapsed},%{WORD:label}
but this one returns "No Matches":
%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:log_timestamp},%{INT:elapsed},%{WORD:label},%{INT:responsecode}
because you don't have an integer in that position.
Continue adding fields one at a time until everything you want is matched.
Note that you don't have to escape the commas.