I use LogStash 6.7.0 and ElasticSearch 6.7.0. Both of them are installed on my remote Azure VM server.
I installed the Http_poller input plugin, and I am currently following the tutorial here.
As instructed by the tutorial, this is my logstash config:
input {
http_poller {
urls => {
"localhost" => "http://localhost:8080"
}
schedule => {"every" => "30s"}
automatic_retries => 0
request_timeout => 8
metadata_target => http_poller_metadata
tags => website_healthcheck
}
}
filter {
if [http_poller_metadata] {
mutate {
add_field => {
"@host" => "%{http_poller_metadata[name]}"
}
}
}
# Classify slow requests
if [http_poller_metadata][runtime_seconds] and [http_poller_metadata][runtime_seconds] > 0.5 {
mutate {
add_tag => "slow_request"
}
}
# Classify requests that can't connect or have an unexpected response code
if [http_request_failure] or
[http_poller_metadata][code] != 200 {
# Tag all these events as being bad
mutate {
add_tag => "bad_request"
}
}
if "bad_request" in [tags] {
# Tag all but the first message every 10m as "_throttled_poller_alert"
# We will later drop messages tagged as such.
throttle {
key => "%{@host}-RequestFailure"
period => 600
before_count => -1
after_count => 1
add_tag => "throttled_poller_alert"
}
if "throttled_poller_alert" in [tags] {
drop {}
}
mutate {
add_field => {
sns_subject => "%{@host} is not so healthy! %{@tags}"
sns_message => '%{http_request_failure}'
codec => json
}
}
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
}
stdout {
codec => json
}
}
Running the command logstash -f http-pipeline.conf (where http-pipeline.conf contains the contents above) was successful:
Sending Logstash logs to C:/Users/Miao/Downloads/logstash-6.7.0/logs which is now configured via log4j2.properties
[2019-04-01T12:53:02,788][WARN ][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2019-04-01T12:53:02,813][INFO ][logstash.runner ] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.7.0"}
[2019-04-01T12:53:14,667][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>2, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,291][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>[http://localhost:9200/]}}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,606][WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:9200/"}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,704][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] ES Output version determined {:es_version=>6}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,729][WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Detected a 6.x and above cluster: the `type` event field won't be used to determine the document _type {:es_version=>6}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,766][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["//localhost:9200"]}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,797][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Using default mapping template
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,828][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Attempting to install template {:manage_template=>{"template"=>"logstash-*", "version"=>60001, "settings"=>{"index.refresh_interval"=>"5s"}, "mappings"=>{"_default_"=>{"dynamic_templates"=>[{"message_field"=>{"path_match"=>"message", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false}}}, {"string_fields"=>{"match"=>"*", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false, "fields"=>{"keyword"=>{"type"=>"keyword", "ignore_above"=>256}}}}}], "properties"=>{"@timestamp"=>{"type"=>"date"}, "@version"=>{"type"=>"keyword"}, "geoip"=>{"dynamic"=>true, "properties"=>{"ip"=>{"type"=>"ip"}, "location"=>{"type"=>"geo_point"}, "latitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}, "longitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}}}}}}}}
[2019-04-01T12:53:15,994][INFO ][logstash.inputs.http_poller] Registering http_poller Input {:type=>nil, :schedule=>{"every"=>"30s"}, :timeout=>nil}
[2019-04-01T12:53:16,088][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Pipeline started successfully {:pipeline_id=>"main", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x59e3c30c sleep>"}
[2019-04-01T12:53:16,215][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Pipelines running {:count=>1, :running_pipelines=>[:main], :non_running_pipelines=>[]}
[2019-04-01T12:53:16,775][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
On my remote machine, I have also created a RESTful web service. So far, there are only very simple APIs available:
This is how POST api/Default looks:
On my local machine, using Postman, I sent a GET request to the remote web server, and received the following response, as expected:
[ "value1", "value2" ]
I then sent a POST request:
I received the following response:
Inside the console running LogStash, I see the following output (truncated for brevity):
JSON parse error, original data now in message field {:error=>#<LogStash::Json::ParserError: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
at [Source: (String)"<!DOCTYPE html> ... etc.
How can I fix the JSON parse error?