Mutate join filter

Andreasky · June 21, 2019, 1:01pm

Is it possible to use the mutate join filter to make it possible to make queries across indexes in Kibana? Like joining tables in SQL?

Christian_Dahlqvist · June 23, 2019, 9:09pm

What is the “mutate join filter” you are referring to? What are you looking to achieve?

Andreasky · June 24, 2019, 6:23am

I'm trying to get information from two different indexes. I've got a log file that contains different messages about a phone call, and I want to get information from all of the messages in e.g. one table in kibana.

Christian_Dahlqvist · June 24, 2019, 7:08am

Can you provide an example of data from the two sources?

Andreasky · June 24, 2019, 7:37am

"Index" = "message1":

"sessionID" = "12345"
"Response" = "answered"

"Index" = "message2":

"sessionID" = "12345"
"Caller" = 09876543"
"Callee" = 01234567"

What I want:

"Index" = "message"

"sessionID" = "12345"
"Response" = "answered"
"Caller" = 09876543"
"Callee" = 01234567"

Christian_Dahlqvist · June 24, 2019, 8:19am

You will need to join these up before indexing and might be able to get se the translate filter.

Andreasky · June 24, 2019, 8:20am

Can you give me an example of how to do this?

Badger · June 24, 2019, 12:09pm

Another possible approach is doc_as_upsert, as mentioned here.

Andreasky · June 25, 2019, 8:08am

I tried that, but I don't quite understand how it works, so I didn't manage to make it work. Logstash just shuts down.

output {
if [Type] == "adapter" {
    file { path => "/some/path/out.txt" codec => plain { format => '{ "update" : {"_id" : "%{sessionID}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": "sessionID": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
' } }
}
}

Andreasky · June 25, 2019, 8:29am

So now the configuration file runs, but the out.txt file only looks like this:

{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}
			{"update" : {"_id": "%{sessionid}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"}}
			{"doc" : "sessionid": true, "doc_as_upsert" : true}

This was not exactly the result I was hoping for

Badger · June 25, 2019, 3:22pm

Let me expand upon that approach. Suppose we have two sources of data. Firstly we have a file that contains a session identifier and a response

{ "sessionID": "12345", "Response": "answered" }
{ "sessionID": "23456", "Response": "dropped" }

Then we have another file that contains the caller and callee

{ "sessionID": "12345", "Caller": "09876543", "Callee": "01234567" }
{ "sessionID": "23456", "Caller": "09871234", "Callee": "76543210" }

We can use file inputs to read these and tag them, so that we know which events have which format

input {
    file { path => "/home/foo.txt" tags => [ "foo" ] sincedb_path => "/dev/null" start_position => beginning }
    file { path => "/home/bar.txt" tags => [ "bar" ] sincedb_path => "/dev/null" start_position => beginning }
}

We use a json filter to parse them

filter { json { source => "message" } }

In the output section we write out the appropriate fields for each type

output {
    if "foo" in [tags] {
        file { path => "/tmp/out.txt" codec => plain { format => '{ "update" : {"_id" : "%{sessionID}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Response": "%{Response}" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
' } }
    }
    if "bar" in [tags] {
        file { path => "/tmp/out.txt" codec => plain { format => '{ "update" : {"_id" : "%{sessionID}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Caller": "%{Caller}", "Callee": "%{Callee}" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
' } }
    }
}

This results in the following output

{ "update" : {"_id" : "12345", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Response": "answered" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
{ "update" : {"_id" : "23456", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Response": "dropped" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
{ "update" : {"_id" : "12345", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Caller": "09876543", "Callee": "01234567" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
{ "update" : {"_id" : "23456", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Caller": "09871234", "Callee": "76543210" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }

If you load that into elasticsearch using curl then the first update with a given _id will insert the document with the associated fields, and subsequent udpates will update the document with additional fields.

Andreasky · June 26, 2019, 5:43am

This is probably a stupid question, but how do I do this when all of the information is in the same file? I have used several grok filters to extract the infromation that I need from the lines in the file. Do I need to save them in different files first?
Thank you so much for your help!

Badger · June 26, 2019, 12:58pm

You can use any conditional that tells you whether the event contains [Response] or [Callee]. It might be as simple as

output {
    if [Response] {
        file { path => "/tmp/out.txt" codec => plain { format => '{ "update" : {"_id" : "%    {sessionID}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Response": "%{Response}" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
' } }
    }
    if [Callee] {
        file { path => "/tmp/out.txt" codec => plain { format => '{ "update" : {"_id" : "%{sessionID}", "_type" : "doc", "_index" : "someindex"} }
{ "doc": { "Caller": "%{Caller}", "Callee": "%{Callee}" }, "doc_as_upsert" : true }
' } }
    }
}

Andreasky · June 27, 2019, 8:43am

Now my problem is that this command:

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/someindex/doc/_bulk' -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @/home/summer19/dipper_prod_logs/out.txt

won't run unless i exchange "_id" with "id", "_type" with "type" and "_index" with "index". But when I do that, nothig happens to the docs in the "someindex"-index.
Any suggestions to how i can fix this?

Badger · June 27, 2019, 1:52pm

You can probably get rid of type/_type altogether, but the current documentation says you should be using _index and _id. What error do you get?

Andreasky · June 28, 2019, 8:19am

{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"x_content_parse_exception","reason":"[1:852] [UpdateRequest] failed to parse field [doc]"}],"type":"x_content_parse_exception","reason":"[1:852] [UpdateRequest] failed to parse field [doc]","caused_by":{"type":"json_parse_exception","reason":"Unexpected character ('_' (code 95)): was expecting comma to separate Object entries\n at ...

This is the error message I get.

Badger · June 28, 2019, 1:50pm

That suggests the _id is not inside double quotes. Can you post the first 2 lines of what you are posting using curl?

Andreasky · July 5, 2019, 9:22am

Thank you for the help! I tried using the aggregate filter plugin instead. Not working perfectly yet, but I managed to get all the information from one sessionid in the same document.

system · August 2, 2019, 9:22am

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