Logstash vs rsyslog java stack multiline issue

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 9:59am

Hi All,
Does someone configure a multiline event starting from rsyslog messages? We tried to implement a catch all logstash instance for all the messages forwarded by docker daemons via syslog but we can't parse the multiline events.

The our configuration is

input {
  syslog {
    type => "docker-dev-support"
    host => "0.0.0.0"
    port => 6000
    codec => multiline {
      pattern => "^%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601}"
      negate => false
      what => "previous"
    }
  }
}

Thanks,
Marcello

magnusbaeck · August 18, 2017, 11:10am

You'd need to have negate => true.

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 12:38pm

We have already configured it to true but all the messages have been discarded. If we keep it to false we noticed the messages as single event per row.

Marcello

magnusbaeck · August 18, 2017, 12:52pm

Then perhaps the match expression is wrong then. negate => false will not work.

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 12:59pm

We configured the parameter and this is the full configuration:

input {
  syslog {
    type => "docker-dev-support"
    host => "0.0.0.0"
    port => 6000
    codec => multiline {
      pattern => "^%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601}"
      negate => true
      what => "previous"
    }
  }
}

filter {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
    if "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" in [tags] {
      mutate {
        remove_tag => [ "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" ]
      }
    }
    mutate {
      remove_field => [ "message" ]
    }
  }
}

output {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
   elasticsearch {
     action => "index"
     codec => "plain"
     hosts => [ "http://localhost:9200" ]
     index => "logstash-docker-test-dev-support-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
   }
  }
}

In this scenario all the messages are discarded and we can't find them into an index (tagged as failed). We can't debug this configuration.

Marcello

magnusbaeck · August 18, 2017, 1:23pm

Without knowing what your messages look like we can't help you debug it.

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 1:36pm

The messages received are all forwarded via syslog from a logspout instance and we can have apache access log entries or exceptions like this:

2017-08-18 13:32:13,998 DEBUG [http-nio-8080-exec-6] testcharts [test.java:78] Error in test: 
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
        at it.company.mycards.view.test.doPost(test.java:61)
        at it.company.mycards.view.test.doGet(test.java:31)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:635)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
        at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:198)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:478)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:80)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:624)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:799)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:861)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1455)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

magnusbaeck · August 18, 2017, 1:47pm

Yes, but that message is wrapped in a syslog payload isn't it? What does an actual syslog payload look like? I'm pretty sure the multiline codec is applied to the payload itself rather than the parsed message that the grok expression called internally by the syslog filter extracts.

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 2:06pm

If i disable the negate to false and I keep alive the message for all the messages I noticed this scenario:

message: <14>1 2017-08-18T14:02:06Z 0fe037477a82 mycard-dev 25523 - - at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:624)

syslog_message: at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:624)

It seems catched correctly from syslog input, but the multiline doesn't create entries into the index with the items catched, because I expect to see some grokparsefailure message in case of issue into the index.

Marcello

magnusbaeck · August 18, 2017, 2:27pm

Right, that's what the real payload looks like. So your multiline configuration needs to take the syslog prefix into account and join with the previous line unless it begins with something like this:

<14>1 2017-08-18T14:02:06Z 0fe037477a82 mycard-dev 25523 2017-08-18 13:32:13,998

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 3:06pm

could it be fine with a configuration like this?

input {
  syslog {
    type => "docker-dev-support"
    host => "0.0.0.0"
    port => 6000
    codec => multiline {
      pattern => "^<%{NUMBER}>%{NUMBER} %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601}"
      negate => true
      what => "previous"
    }
  }
}

filter {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
    #grok {
    #  patterns_dir => ["/etc/logstash/patterns/"]
    #  match => { "message" => "%{DOCKERSYSLOG}" }
    #}
    #if "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" in [tags] {
    #  mutate {
    #   remove_tag => [ "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" ]
    #  }
    #}
    #mutate {
    #  remove_field => [ "message" ]
    #}
  }
}

output {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
   elasticsearch {
     action => "index"
     codec => "plain"
     hosts => [ "http://localhost:9200" ]
     index => "logstash-docker-test-dev-support-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
   }
  }
}

Marcello_A · August 18, 2017, 4:22pm

I think that this is the final configuration:

input {
  syslog {
    type => "docker-dev-support"
    host => "0.0.0.0"
    port => 6000
    codec => multiline {
      pattern => "^<%{NUMBER}>%{NUMBER} %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601} %{NOTSPACE} %{NOTSPACE} %{NUMBER} - - (%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601}|%{IPORHOST}|\[%{DAY} %{MONTH} %{MONTHDAY} %{TIME} %{YEAR}\])"
      negate => true
      what => "previous"
    }
  }
}

filter {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
    grok {
      patterns_dir => ["/etc/logstash/patterns/"]
      match => { "message" => "%{DOCKERSYSLOG}" }
    }
    if "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" in [tags] {
      mutate {
        remove_tag => [ "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" ]
      }
    }
    mutate {
      remove_field => [ "message" ]
    }
  }
}

output {
if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
elasticsearch {
action => "index"
codec => "plain"
hosts => [ "http://localhost:9200" ]
index => "logstash-docker-test-dev-support-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
}
}
}

I need to check if the logstash wait a new closing line to store the last rows processed into the multiline pipeline.

Marcello_A · August 21, 2017, 9:20am

We have resolved during the weekend with this final configuration :

input {
  syslog {
    type => "docker-dev-support"
    host => "0.0.0.0"
    port => 6000
    codec => multiline {
      pattern => "^<%{NUMBER}>%{NUMBER} %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601} %{NOTSPACE} %{NOTSPACE} %{NUMBER} - - (%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601}|%{IPORHOST}|\[%{DAY} %{MONTH} %{MONTHDAY} %{TIME} %{YEAR}\])"
      negate => true
      what => "previous"
    }
  }
}

filter {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
    grok {
      patterns_dir => ["/etc/logstash/patterns/"]
      match => { "message" => "%{DOCKERSYSLOG}" }
    }
    if "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" in [tags] {
      mutate {
        remove_tag => [ "_grokparsefailure_sysloginput" ]
      }
    }
    if "multiline" in [tags] {
      mutate {
        gsub => [ "syslog_message", "^<.*>.* \- \-", "" ]
      } 
    }
    mutate {
      remove_field => [ "message" ]
    }
  }
}

output {
  if [type] == "docker-dev-support" {
   elasticsearch {
     action => "index"
     codec => "plain"
     hosts => [ "http://localhost:9200" ]
     index => "logstash-docker-test-dev-support-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"    
   }
}

thanks for all the support,
Marcello

system · September 18, 2017, 9:35am

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