Configtest passes, but still get error on load

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1

I have a config with translate filter:

translate {
  field => "level"
  dictionary => [
    "DEBUG", "DEBUG"
    "INFO",  "INFO"
    "WARN",  "WARN"
    "ERR",   "ERROR"
  ]
  fallback => "INFO"
  exact => true
}

The dictionary elements are not separated with commas. --configtest is happy with this, but logstash fails when it actually tries to load the config. Does this have something to do with thirdparty plugins?

2

What's the error message? Which version of Logstash?

3

logstash 2.3.3

Here's a simpler snippet, incorrect:

if ![level] {
  mutate { add_field { "level", "INFO" } }
}

passes configtest, but it should be

if ![level] {
  mutate { add_field => { "level" => "INFO" } }
}

However when actually running logstash I get error

Expected one of #, =>

Where the position is the beginning the filter {}, not anywhere near the actual error.

If this is not a known issue, or not easily reproducible, I can build a simple test case.

4

Yeah, that look like a bug in the configuration file parser.

5

Another example. I have this one config

input {
  file {
    path => "/var/log/audit/audit.log"
    type => "audit"
    add_field => {
      "service" => "audit",
      "name" => "audit"
    }
  }
}

$ service logstash restart
Configuration error. Not restarting. Re-run with configtest parameter for details

$ sudo /opt/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest /etc/logstash/conf.d/00_audit.conf
Configuration OK