Follow-up from "Unable to avoid JSON parsing errors in logstash log-file"

Hi everyone,
I am using ELK 7.2.

I did read from a past answer here and I found it useful, as what I need to do is to make logstash correctly parse json data, and also an array of nested json objects.

However, if I need to parse both json and also json in form of an array of json objects, what would it be the configuration? For now, I did read this [{},{}]

Is there a way to correctly embed that part of regex to the one I am already using (wrote as an answer on the forum, here below)?

if [message] =~ "\A\{.+\}\z" {
  json { .. }
}

To make the setup clearer, because of this problem I tried to temporarily cast every type that passes through logstash as string, so the objects will not be aggregatable by ELK but at least they can be read. I tried this ruby filter


filter {
 ruby {
        code => '
            def stringify(object, name, event)
                if object == nil
                    event.set(name, "nil" )
                elsif object.kind_of?(Hash) and object != {}
                    object.each { |k, v| stringify(v, "#{name}[#{k}]", event) }
                elsif object.kind_of?(Array) and object != []
                    object.each_index { |i|
                        stringify(object[i], "#{name}[#{i}]", event)
                    }
                else
                    event.set(name, object.to_s)
                end
            end
            stringify(event.get("extraData"), "[extraData]", event)
        '
    }
}

and it seem to work, at least on my local configuration. However, in the actual environment (which is also created by Terraform) that does not work.

If I could correctly ingest and parse the source [message] as it should perhaps this ruby filter to cast everything to string is not even needed.

Can you please confirm me the regex above? How can I make such json and json array of objects correctly parsed by logstash?

Many thanks

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