Logstash conf file not working

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 8:49am

Hi,
I have a problem with the conf file of logstash it doesn't use the grok patterns I've passed. I'm trying to get the IP address so geoip can show me where it came from. It's working with apache but it doesn't with these logs. can anyone help me please?

This is a line of my firewall logs
Apr 9 03:31:08 fw-ba kernel: RULE 29 -- DENY IN=eth2.178 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:c8:0e:14:f7:32:64:08:00 SRC=192.168.178.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2

And I'm using this conf file in /etc/logstash/conf.d/14-firewallba.conf

filter {
  #if [type] == "firewallba" {
   if [path] == "/var/log/ba/firewalllogs" {
     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname}.* SRC=%{IP:srcip} DST=%{IP:dstip}"}
    }
    geoip {
      source => "srcip"
      target => "geoip"
      database => "/etc/logstash/GeoLiteCity.dat"
      add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ]
      add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}"  ]
    }
  }
}

I have tried type and path but none of the both works. The grok patterns were testen on https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/
So I don't think the problem is there but also got no idea where it is.

guyboertje · May 17, 2017, 9:21am

The standard advice is to start small and incrementally add a section to the grok pattern while using the stdout output with codec => rubydebug and the geoip filter section commented out.

BTW your second add field will overwrite the first one - did you intend that?

OTOH for logs that are very structured like this and you are using LS 5+, you could try the Dissect filter - blog article.

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 10:05am

Thank for the reply @guyboertje
I've changed my conf file to

filter {
  #if [type] == "firewallba" {
   if [path] == "/var/log/ba/firewalllogs" {
     grok {
      match => { "message" => ".* SRC=%{IP:srcip} DST=%{IP:dstip}"}
    }
    #geoip {
    #  source => "srcip"
    #  target => "geoip"
    #  database => "/etc/logstash/GeoLiteCity.dat"
    #  add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ]
    #  add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}"  ]
    #}
  }
}

also codec => rudydebug is writed down on my output file but nothing has changed

the output I get from kibana is

@timestamp	  	May 16th 2017, 15:07:03.540
t@version	  	1
t_id	  	AVwRTFxUKtwQJIgJR1Qh
t_index	  	filebeat-2017.05.16
#_score	  	
t_type	  	firewallba
tbeat.hostname	  	centos
tbeat.name	  	centos
#count	  	1
?fields	  	   - 
thost	  	centos
tinput_type	  	log
tmessage	  	May  7 03:47:22 fw-ba kernel: RULE 33 -- DENY IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=140.205.81.53 DST=77.109.86.42 LEN=66 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=113 ID=10582 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=61188 LEN=46 
#offset	  	41,378,036
tsource	  	/var/log/ba/firewalllogs
tsyslog_hostname	  	fw-ba
tsyslog_timestamp	  	May  7 03:47:22
ttags	  	beats_input_codec_plain_applied
ttype	  	firewallba

I'm using LS 2.2, did try to update but it failed so I reverted it back

guyboertje · May 17, 2017, 10:29am

comment out your elasticsearch output and add

output {
  stdout { codec => rubydebug
}

then look at the command line output.
First change your grok to:

filter {
  #if [type] == "firewallba" {
   if [path] == "/var/log/ba/firewalllogs" {
     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{DATA:rest}"}
    }
    #geoip {
    #  source => "srcip"
    #  target => "geoip"
    #  database => "/etc/logstash/GeoLiteCity.dat"
    #  add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ]
    #  add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}"  ]
    #}
  }
}

confirm that you see a field syslog_timestamp with a value like Apr 9 03:31:08 and a field call rest that contains the rest of the line.
then add the next piece to grok:

     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:rest}"}
    }

confirm that you still have the syslog_timestamp and now syslog_host is fw-ba
then add the next piece to grok.

     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:beforeSRC"}SRC=%{DATA:rest}"}
    }

confirm that beforeSRC is kernel: RULE 29 -- DENY IN=eth2.178 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:c8:0e:14:f7:32:64:08:00(space at the end) and rest starts with the IP address.
then remove the beforeSRC (you don't want that saved to a field.
then add the src ip to grok:

     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA"}SRC=%{IP:srcip}%{DATA:rest}"}
    }

and so on...
Once you can see that the event looks like you want uncomment the geoip
confirm that the geoip lookup enhancement worked.
continue until the event looks correct then remove the stdout output section and uncomment the elasticsearch section.

Good luck

pjanzen · May 17, 2017, 10:53am

if you change:
#if [type] == "firewallba" {
to
#if [t_type] == "firewallba" {

and remove the hash in front of it I think it will start working...

guyboertje · May 17, 2017, 11:00am

Well it seems obvious but in the console for the stdout output check what the type or path field actually is.
ttype or type or t_type and tpath or t_path or path

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 11:10am

@guyboertje and @pjanzen thanks for the replies

There is type and _type tried both of them but it didn't work, I also tried source but that too didn't do anything.

Whenever I try to comment out everything but

output { stdout { codec => rubydebug }

in my output file filebeat somehow fails to start,
this is how it looks like now

output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
    sniffing => true
    manage_template => false
    index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
    document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
  }
  #Later toegevoegd
  #stdout { codes => rubydebug }
}

pjanzen · May 17, 2017, 11:46am

So based on the first message I created a small test.

The output I get is:

{
"path" => "/root/input.txt",
"srcip" => "192.168.178.1",
"@timestamp" => 2017-05-17T11:43:15.962Z,
"syslog_hostname" => "fw-ba",
"syslog_timestamp" => "Apr 9 03:31:08",
"@version" => "1",
"dstip" => "224.0.0.1",
"message" => "Apr 9 03:31:08 fw-ba kernel: RULE 29 -- DENY IN=eth2.178 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:c8:0e:14:f7:32:64:08:00 SRC=192.168.178.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2",
"type" => "firewallba"
}

The conf file I created is this one: (I remove the geoip stuff, this is not important for this test)
Notice I set the type on the input...

input {
file {
path => ['/root/input.txt']
start_position => 'beginning'
sincedb_path => '/dev/null'
type => 'firewallba'
}
}

filter {
if [type] == "firewallba" {
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname}.* SRC=%{IP:srcip} DST=%{IP:dstip}"}
}
}
}

output {
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
}

guyboertje · May 17, 2017, 11:57am

Is codes a typo in the message here or does the config have the typo?

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 12:09pm

@guyboertje
That was a typo in the output file, I fixed that part but there is no rest attribute

@pjanzen
When I try to add type in my input file filebeat fails to start , I also have a few types so maybe that's the reason

But the thing is that my apache conf

filter {
  if [type] == "apache-access" {
    grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" }
    }
    geoip {
      source => "clientip"
      target => "geoip"
      database => "/etc/logstash/GeoLiteCity.dat"
      add_field => [ "[geoip][coordinates]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ]
      add_field => [ "[geoip][coordinates]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}" ]
    }
  }
}

And this does what is has to do
tha acces log is located in /var/log/httpd/access_log

now my firewallba conf doesn't it's almost the same

filter {
  if [type] == "firewallba" {
  #if [source] == "/var/log/ba/firewalllogs" {
     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{DATA:rest}"}
    }
    #geoip {
    #  source => "srcip"
    #  target => "geoip"
    #  database => "/etc/logstash/GeoLiteCity.dat"
    #  add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ]
    #  add_field => [ "[geoip][location]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}"  ]
    #}
  }
}

This one is located in /var/log/ba/firewalllogs

I also get logs from /var/log/messages/secure/mail/...

pjanzen · May 17, 2017, 12:10pm

Can you share your input config as well? It seems to go wrong there.

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 12:14pm

hi @pjanzen This is my 02-beats-input.conf file the 5140 port is for pfSense and the 5044 is for beats

input {
  beats {
    port => 5044
    ssl => true
    ssl_certificate => "/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt"
    ssl_key => "/etc/pki/tls/private/logstash-forwarder.key"
    #type =>"firewallba"
    #path => "[/var/log/*]"
  }
}

#tcp syslog stream via 5140
input {
  tcp {
    type => "syslog"
    port => 5140
  }
}
#udp syslogs tream via 5140
input {
  udp {
    type => "syslog"
    port => 5140
  }
}

pjanzen · May 17, 2017, 12:16pm

On which input are you receiving the firewallba logs? if that is beats you can un-hash the type and then it should work not?

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 12:18pm

@pjanzen On the beats but if I un-hash that filebeat says connection refused that's why I un-hashed it again

pjanzen · May 17, 2017, 12:24pm

That is strange according to the docs you can set type
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-beats.html#plugins-inputs-beats-type

What you can do is this:
if [message] =~ /fw-ba/ {
do you grok stuff
}

then you're not depended on the type anymore.

Other wise I am out of options..

RustuGurkan · May 17, 2017, 12:45pm

That didn't work either but thanks for the help guys @pjanzen @guyboertje

pjanzen · May 17, 2017, 12:51pm

Thats is strange...

Input file contains:

Apr 9 03:31:08 fw-ba kernel: RULE 29 -- DENY IN=eth2.178 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:c8:0e:14:f7:32:64:08:00 SRC=192.168.178.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2

and my filter looks like this

input {
  file {
    path => ['/root/input.txt']
    start_position => 'beginning'
    sincedb_path => '/dev/null'
    type => 'firewallba'
  }
}

filter {
  if [message] =~ /fw-ba/ {
     grok {
      match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname}.* SRC=%{IP:srcip} DST=%{IP:dstip}"}
    }
  }
}

output {
  stdout {
    codec => rubydebug
  }
}

and the looks like this.

{
                "path" => "/root/input.txt",
               "srcip" => "192.168.178.1",
          "@timestamp" => 2017-05-17T12:48:32.464Z,
     "syslog_hostname" => "fw-ba",
    "syslog_timestamp" => "Apr 9 03:31:08",
            "@version" => "1",
                "host" => "esearchr1",
               "dstip" => "224.0.0.1",
             "message" => "Apr 9 03:31:08 fw-ba kernel: RULE 29 -- DENY IN=eth2.178 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:c8:0e:14:f7:32:64:08:00 SRC=192.168.178.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2",
                "type" => "firewallba"
}

system · June 14, 2017, 12:51pm

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