Logstash filter date "atypical" failure

Hello logstashers,

I have an "atypical" problem with a particular log format using date filter. Follow the tests.

bin/logstash --version
logstash 7.5.0

Success

~$ echo "14/01/2020 16:03:00,143" | bin/logstash -e 'input { stdin {} } filter { date { match => [ "message", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS" ] } }'


{
"message" => "14/01/2020 16:03:00,143",
"@version" => "1",
"@timestamp" => 2020-01-14T19:03:00.143Z,
"host" => "myhost"
}

Failure

~$ echo "[14/01/2020 16:03:00,143 XXX] [XXX] MSG" | bin/logstash -e 'input { stdin {} } filter { date { match => [ "message", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS" ] } }'


{
"@timestamp" => 2020-01-14T19:42:51.585Z,
"@version" => "1",
"message" => "[14/01/2020 16:03:00,143 XXX] [XXX] MSG",
"tags" => [
[0] "_dateparsefailure"
],
"host" => "myhost"
}

Where am i going wrong?

Grateful for the help and attention. :wink:

The pattern in the date filter has to match the entire field. Your [message] field in the second example includes much more stuff that your pattern does not match. I would use dissect to extract the date from [message]

dissect { mapping => { "message" => "[%{[@metadata][timestamp]} %{+%{[@metadata][timestamp]} %{}" } }
date { match => [ "[@metadata][timestamp]", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS" ] }
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Hello Badger,

Thanks for the answer. But I still have the problem. Testing logstash generates an exception because it cannot identify the field passed in mapping dissect.

[ERROR] 2020-01-15 13:20:38.686 [[main]>worker0] Dissector - Dissect threw an exception {exception=org.logstash.FieldReference$IllegalSyntaxException: Invalid FieldReference: `%{[@metadata][timestamp]`, backtrace=org.logstash.FieldReference$StrictTokenizer.tokenize(FieldReference.java:283)
   org.logstash.FieldReference.parse(FieldReference.java:184)
   org.logstash.FieldReference.parseToCache(FieldReference.java:175)
   org.logstash.FieldReference.from(FieldReference.java:107)
   org.logstash.Event.includes(Event.java:194)
   org.logstash.dissect.fields.AppendField.append(AppendField.java:42)
   org.logstash.dissect.Dissector.dissect(Dissector.java:142)
   org.logstash.dissect.JavaDissectorLibrary$RubyDissect.invokeDissection(JavaDissectorLibrary.java:180)
   org.logstash.dissect.JavaDissectorLibrary$RubyDissect.dissect(JavaDissectorLibrary.java:129)
   org.logstash.dissect.JavaDissectorLibrary$RubyDissect.lambda$dissectMulti$0(JavaDissectorLibrary.java:148)
   java.base/java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:948)
   java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$Head.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:658)}
{
    "@timestamp" => 2020-01-15T16:20:37.160Z,
      "@version" => "1",
       "message" => "[14/01/2020 16:03:00,143 XXX] [XXX] MSG",
          "host" => "myhost",
          "tags" => [
        [0] "_dissectfailure",
        [1] "_dateparsefailure"
    ]
}

I tried to remove [@metadata], but the problem persists. Another question, why use [@metadata] before the name/alias of the [timestamp] field?

My test line:

echo "[14/01/2020 16:03:00,143 XXX] [XXX] MSG" | bin/logstash -e 'input { stdin {} } filter { dissect { mapping => { "message" => "[%{[@metadata][timestamp]} %{+%{[@metadata][timestamp]} %{}" } } date { match => [ "[@metadata][timestamp]", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS" ] } }'

Grateful for the attention.

Hi Badger,

I managed to solve. Following solution. Thank you for your help.

dissect {
    mapping => {
      "message" => "[%{timestamp} %{+timestamp} %{}"
    }
  }

  date {
    match => [ "timestamp", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS" ]
    target => "@timestamp"
  }

Yeah, I had an extract %{ in there. It should have been

dissect { mapping => { "message" => "[%{[@metadata][timestamp]} %{+[@metadata][timestamp]} %{}" } }

I use [@metadata] since that can be referenced in the filters, but it not included in the output. It probably does not add any value to have a [timestamp] field in your final documents.

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