Field list

I have this entry in logstash.conf

mutate {
       split => ["message","Employee"]
       add_field => {"part1" =>"%{[message][0]}"}
       add_field => {"part2" =>"%{[message][1]}"}      
}


mutate {
       split => ["part2","#"]
       add_field => {"part2_1" =>"%{[part2][0]}"}
       add_field => {"part2_2" =>"%{[part2][1]}"}

}

This adds part1 , part2 , part2_1 and part2_2 fields in Kibana's Available field list.

But my requirement is to add only part2_2 field . rest of the fields are not required in Kibana.

What changes I should make here so that only part2_2 field is added in Kibana's Available field list.

If you do not want the other fields then do not add them If you need to remove existing fields then use mutate+remove_field.

How ? I dont want field part1

You mean change this

mutate {
       split => ["message","Employee"]
       add_field => {"part1" =>"%{[message][0]}"}
       add_field => {"part2" =>"%{[message][1]}"}      
}

to this

mutate {
       split => ["message","Employee"]
       part1 =>"%{[message][0]}"}
       add_field => {"part2" =>"%{[message][1]}"}      
}

look at part1 . Is this correct syntax not to add the field? I am stuck at this spot.

Change

mutate {
   split => ["message","Employee"]
   add_field => {"part1" =>"%{[message][0]}"}
   add_field => {"part2" =>"%{[message][1]}"}      
}

to

mutate {
   split => ["message","Employee"]
   add_field => {"part2" =>"%{[message][1]}"}      
}

No. It is not that easy. I need the field in next mutate for further splitting.

see this , you'll understand the intent.

mutate {
       split => ["message","Employee"]
       add_field => {"part1" =>"%{[message][0]}"} // No need to send this to Output
       add_field => {"part2" =>"%{[message][1]}"} // No need to send this to Output    
}


mutate {
       split => ["part2","#"]
       add_field => {"part2_1" =>"%{[part2][0]}"} // No need to send this to Output
       add_field => {"part2_2" =>"%{[part2][1]}"} // No need to send this to Output
}


mutate {
       split => ["part2_2","="]
       add_field => {"X" =>"%{[part2_2][0]}"} // This is required in output
       add_field => {"Y" =>"%{[part2_2][1]}"} // This is required in output
}

tell me what change I should do here so that only X , Y goes to output

It is unclear what you want, but you might find it useful to add fields inside [@metadata]. Those are attached to the event, but are not added to the document by the output.

Yes. I tried that but it gives error.
Please see this
https://pastebin.com/65WNbSck

Is it wrong syntactically ?

split => [[@metadata][qravsmanual],"="]

This should be

split => { "[@metadata][qravsmanual]" => "=" }

Edited to fix syntax...

I guess you missed "}" here . Is it a typo ?
split => { "[@metadata][qravsmanual]" => "="] }

here is the latest config after correction

https://pastebin.com/6Pufu6pF

Is this syntactically okay now ?

You can just run logstash from command line with --config.test_and_exit to check syntax.

If you are comfortable using docker containers on your own you can use this tool Web-UI for Logstash filter development

Either way you can test it and if it throws an error, paste here all the details:

  • log contents used as input
  • logstash configuration
  • errors, desired or unexpected output

In fact, if you paste here a sample log line it would be really useful. I presume that, instead of splitting a message in two by a word separator, splitting the result in two again by another word, splitting again by other separators... is a contrieved way to extract the desired information. Maybe grok or kv filters are a simpler solution for your use case.

No, remove the ] from line 19.

when I run this
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf --config.test_and_exit

I get this error

Could you please tell , which syntax I am making wrong ?

Here is my logstash.conf

@Badger I did that. But there is still syntax error.

Here is the latest logstash.conf ... I have appended the @metadata snippet at the end block.

latest config file
https://pastebin.com/XNpeGme7

What I am missing ?

Hi,
end of the line 135 }} should be }"} ?

@grumo35

corrected this part.

when I run this now
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf --config.test_and_exit

This is still giving syntax error

Here is the latest config file

what I am missing ?

Line 145
split => [[@metadata][request_id],"="] should be ["[ at the begging

I'm not sure of your strange syntax.

You should go for :

split => [ "[FIELDNAME]" , "=" ]

I just change this to

split => { "[@metadata][request_id]" => "=" }

This seems working .

I run again
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf --config.test_and_exit

Result :
runner - Using config.test_and_exit mode. Config Validation Result: OK. Exiting Logstash

@grumo35

could you please tell how you are identifying line no of issue ? I dont see that in the error message.

The error message contains the line number

Reason: Expected one of #, ", ', -, [, {, ] at line 145, column 19

Thanks....that helped a lot.

Now I'm getting the fields successfully in the output and also in Kibana.

Kibana screen

But I do not see these fields in the filter (arrow marked) in Kibana.

Is there anything I require to do so that these fields are visible in filter ?

This is because , I want to apply a filter condition for these fields.