Netflow input and output

Hi all

I need to receive netflow data and output it to multiple destinations (just testing with single destination for now)

Im running logstash 7.15.2 under windows

I made the following logstash config file but it crashes when netflow data is received:

input {
  udp {
    port  => 2055
    codec => netflow
  }
}

output {
  
udp {
    port  => 2055
    codec => netflow
    host => "10.2.0.6"
  }

file {
     path => "c:\netflow\netflow.txt"
  }
}

If I remove the UDP output (leave the file output in) it works fine, I can see netflow data output to a txt file.

Does anyone have any ideas about what is wrong with my netflow output? I cant find any exampls online

Thanks in advance

The documentation says the codec is used to decode netflow packets. The code does not have an encode method, so I am not surprised that an exception occurs. I am surprised at what that exception is :smiley: (A stack overflow!)

There is an open issue requesting support for use of the codec on an output.

In short, you cannot use the codec on an output.

Just use samplicator to send the UDP packets to multiple destinations.

If it is useful, the ElastiFlow team makes a samplicator docker container available here.

https://hub.docker.com/r/elastiflow/samplicator

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