_dateparsefailure - Failing to parse timestamp field into @timestamp

Elastic Stack Logstash
1

Hello,
I'm dealing with this problem for quite some time now and after reading all topics related to this, I still wasn't able to find the solution. I am trying to replace the @timestamp field with my log timestamp having the pattern:
2020-04-13T13:51:30,127+0300.
I am sending the logs through a TCP socket from a Maven log4j2 application.

My logstash configuration is the following:

input {
      tcp {
        port => 12345
        type => "log4j2"
      }
}
filter {
     csv {
                    columns => ["timestamp","severity","host","pid","thread","app","message","uuid"]
                    separator => "|"
                    skip_empty_columns => true
     }
     date {
                    locale => "en"
                    timezone => "Europe/Bucharest"
                    match => ["timestamp" , "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss,SSSZ"]
                    remove_field => ["timestamp"]
      }
}
output {
       elasticsearch {
            hosts => "elasticsearch:9200"
            index => "elk"
        }
}

I keep getting the _dateparsefailure tag in Kibana. I have tried matching with the "ISO8601" but failed as well. If anyone has an idea about what could be the problem, please help. Thank you!

2

Hello @rsustic

Would it be possible to temporarily disable the elasticsearch output and use stdout { codec => rubydebug } instead to see the content of the timestamp field?

3

Yes, of course.

{
        "_index" : "elk",
        "_type" : "doc",
        "_id" : "xFztcnEBEb-YhQoKv5jg",
        "_score" : 1.0,
        "_source" : {
          "type" : "log4j2",
          "@version" : "1",
          "uuid" : " f60480d7-52f7-49a4-bf26-d4e9bd9cce5a",
          "host" : " FRONB100139",
          "severity" : " DEBUG ",
          "thread" : " [main] ",
          "tags" : [
            "_dateparsefailure"
          ],
          "message" : " This is a debug message ",
          "port" : 57872,
          "app" : " LogGenerator.App ",
          "@timestamp" : "2020-04-13T09:45:14.982Z",
          "timestamp" : "2020-04-13T12:45:16,743+0300 ",
          "pid" : " P2904 "
        }
4

I am wondering if the extra space following timestamp is triggering the problem...

Could you try to add the following filter just after the csv filter?

mutate {
  strip => ["timestamp", "pid", "severity","thread","app","message"]
}

Also, as the TZ seems provided in the date, I think you can remove:

locale => "en"
timezone => "Europe/Bucharest"

I didn't had a chance to test it on my system, but should solve the problem.

5

Indeed, it solved the problem. Thank you so much!!! I've been dealing with this for God knows how long.