Is filebeat parse the timestamp from the log line and use it as the timestamp of the event?

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1

Hi,

Am using filebeat on graylog and i want to parse the timestamp from the log line and use it as the timestamp field using filebeat ,how can i grok the log timestamp without logstash

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2

You can use an Elasticsearch ingest node pipeline to parse this. This can be used instead of Logstash for a wide variety of processing.

3

I am using graylog as filebeat output . can I use es ingest node pipeline on this case?

filebeat conf :-

================================ Outputs =====================================

-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
.#output.elasticsearch:
.# Array of hosts to connect to.
.# hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:

hosts: ["graylog:5044"]

4

I do not know if Graylog allows you to specify pipeline, so you probably need to ask them. You could also do it through Logstash.

5

ok thanks for the support