_grokparsefailure problem

[Manal_Sadgal]

Hello,
I have a problem with my filter, i get the "_grokparsefailure" tag when the concerned logs are processed.
Here is my filter file:
filter {
if [source] == "/var/log/auth.log"{
grok {
match => [ "message", "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:date} %{SYSLOGHOST:host} %{DATA:program}(?:[%{POSINT:pid}])?: %{GREEDYDATA:smt}: %{GREEDYDATA:smt2} for user %{USER:user}" ]
add_field => [ "received_at", "%{@timestamp}" ]
add_field => [ "received_from", "%{host}" ]
}
date {
match => [ "date", "MMM d HH:mm:ss", "MMM dd HH:mm:ss" ]
}
}
}
I tried it with the input: "Aug 6 12:17:01 stack CRON[14336]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root" on http://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/ and it works fine.
Is there any problem with my code ?
Thank you,
Manal

[Badger]

Assuming you escape the square brackets

grok { match => [ "message", "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:date} %{SYSLOGHOST:host} %{DATA:program}(?:\[%{POSINT:pid}\])?: %{GREEDYDATA:smt}: %{GREEDYDATA:smt2} for user %{USER:user}" ] }

that works for me

   "message" => "Aug 6 12:17:01 stack CRON[14336]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root",
   "program" => "CRON",
      "host" => [
    [0] "myHost",
    [1] "stack"
],
       "pid" => "14336",
       "smt" => "pam_unix(cron:session)",
      "smt2" => "session closed",
      "user" => "root",
      "date" => "Aug 6 12:17:01"

[Manal_Sadgal]

A space was missing , that's why it wasn't working. I fixed it. Thank you !