Logstash Unexpected character ('-' (code 45)): was expecting comma to separate Array entries

Hi i am trying to move my application logs to kibana through logstash.
1.This is my logstash.conf file:

input {
     file {
    path  => "/home/ubuntu/*"
  }
}
filter {
	  
    json {
        source => "message"
    }
}

output {
  amazon_es {
    hosts => ["*****************************************"]
    region => "us-east-1"
    index => "stash"
    #user => "elastic"
    #password => "changeme"
  }
}
  1. when i try to run the config file this what the output i get:

[WARN ] 2020-03-24 11:15:34.878 [[main]>worker1] json - Error parsing json {:source=>"message", :raw=>"[2020-03-24 11:15:33] file_db_logger.INFO: {\"Code\":\"BGDRIF947\",\"Message\":\"Total items backup today\",\"time\":1585048533,\"userId\":\"*************\",\"businessUserId\":\"**********\",\"cloudId\":1,\"domainId\":\"****\",\"additionalInfo\":\"389,395,0\"} [] []", :exception=>#<LogStash::Json::ParserError: Unexpected character ('-' (code 45)): was expecting comma to separate Array entries

kindly help me out with this

That is not valid JSON. You could parse the prefix off using dissect.

Hi Badger, Thank for replying will try it

Hi

  1. Dissect dint work for me but i used this
input {
  file {
    path  => "/home/ubuntu/*"
    start_position => "beginning"
  }
}
filter {

   grok {
    match => { "message" => "(?<jsonf>({.*}))"}
  }
  json {
            source => "jsonf"
  }
  mutate {
        remove_field => [ "message","jsonf" ]
      }
}

output {
  amazon_es {
    hosts => ["***********************"]
    region => "us-east-1"
    index => "lgs-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
    #user => "elastic"
    #password => "changeme"
  }
}
  1. It dint show up any error says that "logstash API started successfully "
  2. But still i am not able to see up the index created in kibana . I am using AWS Elasticsearch.
  3. My server has a full permission to Elastic Search.
    So, what am i doing wrong here

Try put:

codec => "json" into the input

Regards,
Fadjar Tandabawana

Hey guys thank for you time Actually i was giving my log file path wrongly other than that the configurations works perfectly.

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