I have done such configuration for specific log files for filebeat - files has cp1250 encoding:
-
document_type: collector
encoding: cp1250
ignore_older: 672h
log_type: log
max_bytes: 134217728
paths:
- \\someserver\collector\*
I have done such output configuration:
output:
logstash:
compression_level: 0
hosts:
- localhost:5045
What will be encoding of filebeat on logstash output?
I assume that it can works like this but I think it now works like that:
file(cp1250) -> filebeat(utf-8) -> output(utf-8) -> logstash(utf-8) -> gralog(utf-8).
What is filebeat output encoding really?
You seemed to have asked 2 different questions.
What is filebeat output encoding really?
The event + some metadata it added.
What will be encoding of filebeat on logstash output? / What is default encoding for filebeat to logstash?
Filebeat uses its special plain encoding to read and process your text if no encoding is specified.
From the docs
The plain encoding is special, because it does not validate or transform any input.
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I am using Filebeat 6.4.2, Logstash 6.3.1 and want to combine all logs files on the filebeat input path . Logs don't have any specific pattern to start with or end with.
Logs don't have any specific pattern. I want to capture all combined logs to Logstash together in bunch of max lines specified.
I tried with multiple RegEx in the pattern sections, it's not working. Problem is logs does'nt come in any specific pattern.
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /var/log/application.log
fields:
type: admin
tags: admin
fields_under_root: true
multiline.pattern: '.'
multiline.negate: true
multiline.match: after
multiline.max_lines: 1000
output.logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
hosts: ["xxx.20.x.xxx:5043"]
I want to combine all the multiline logs together as per max_lines configuration’s .
You can specify a pattern that would not be found in your logs like
'^HeLlO$€(^_^)€$bYe'
and it should do the trick.
I have a very simple pipelines.yml file defined with a single pipeline. It looks like this:
- pipeline.id: testPipe1
path.config: "/tmp/test.conf"
pipeline.workers: 1
when starting logstash I received the following error:
ERROR: Failed to read pipelines yaml file. Location [path to file].pipelines.yml
, where "path to file" is valid path to yaml file.
the contents of test.conf are:
input { stdin {} } output { stout {codec => rubydebug} }
when I comment out path.config line and use:
config.string: input { stdin {} } output { stout {codec => rubydebug} }
, then logstash creates the pipeline and starts up fine.
What is going on here? Grateful for any insights. thanks
One thing to note is pipelines (with .conf extension) are considered config. Settings (with .yml) extension are your settings. I would separate these into two different directories then run the command line this.
./bin/logstash --path.settings /path_to_your_yml_settings_dir --path.config=/path_to_your_conf_pipelines
Your pipelines.yml file should be placed at "--path.settings" which you would pass on the command line when starting logstash process. Something like:
./bin/logstash --path.settings /path_to_your_settings_dir_containing_your_configs_and_pipelines.yml
Passing the path to my pipelines.yml in --path.settings when starting Logstash did not work out for me.
Removing the quotation marks in path.config worked:
- pipeline.id: testPipe1
path.config: /tmp/test.conf
pipeline.workers: 1
Then run ./bin/logstash
I want to write output file on logstash, but logstash can't write file. file is empty and i can see logs on Kibana Dashboard.
My output.conf file ;
output {
file {
path => "/home/freed/example.txt"
codec => line { format => "custom format: %{message}"}
}
}
I want to help ?
I suspect that you have problems accessing (permission) the file for the logstash.
Check you log: /var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log
In you example logstash must have accessing to /home/freed and be the owner file example.txt
I have a shared folder in my server that contain some files. i read these file with filebeat(version 5.0) and send them to logstash for processing. when i run this process, the number of files that i received in logstash output are lower than the actual number of files in shared folder.
I understand that if there isn't \r\n at the end of file, filebeat didn't recognize that file finish and concatenate next file to this file and send these two files as one event to logstash.
for example file 1 is send as one event
file 1:
> - 23L/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X-23R/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X\r\n
> - 41L/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X-41R/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X\r\n
> - 42L/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X-42R/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X\r\n
> - 43L/AKEXXXX/XXX/330/C2-43R/AKEXXXX/XXX/683/BF0\r\n
> - SI\r\n
> - ;\r\n
> - \r\n
but file 2 is not recognize as one file and it concatenate to next file that is ok
file 2:
- 23L/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X-23R/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X\r\n
- 41L/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X-41R/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X\r\n
- 42L/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X-42R/AKEXXXX/XXX/80/X\r\n
- 43L/AKEXXXX/XXX/330/C2-43R/AKEXXXX/XXX/683/BF0\r\n
- SI\r\n
- ;\r\n
i play with all filebeat configuration options, but it doesn't help. do you have an idea how can handle and resolved this problem?
According to the logstash docs, this should work; but logstash keeps causing a recursion by logging it's own stdout log to itself...
What is incorrect about my exclude config?
input {
file {
path => "/var/log/**/*"
exclude => ["**/*.gz", "logstash/*"]
}
}
output {
tcp {
host => "1.2.3.4"
port => 1234
mode => client
codec => json_lines
}
stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}
I see results with the path set to /var/log/logstash/logstash.stdout when it should be ignoring them.
(I've tested this by completely deleting the logs in the /var/log/logstash dir and restarting)
I've tried these in the array for exclusion:
logstash/*
**/logstash/*
/var/log/logstash/* #This is incorrect according to docs
Exclusion patterns for Logstash's file input are, as documented, matched against the bare filename of encountered files, so the three patterns in the question won't ever match anything. To exclude Logstash log files and gzipped files use logstash.* and *.gz as exclusion patterns.