Parse json and non-json logs

[true64gurus]

I have multiple Kubernetes clusters sending logs to S3 , then I use logstash to read logs off S3 files. Some logs messages are in JSON , others in structured format.

How to dynamically detect and parse JSON , and save non-JSON as it is. I use this filter but not working.

filter {
  if [message] =~ "\A\{.+\}\z" {
    json {
        source => "message"
      }
    mutate { add_field => { "json_detected" => "This is json log" } }
  }
}

Thanks

[Badger]

You could try always using a json filter. If you get a _jsonparsefailure then it is not JSON, so process it as a structured log.

Unless your structured logs look a lot like JSON it is going to be pretty cheap for the json filter to notice that [message] does not start with a {