Having some trouble resolving this issue on my own. Here is the error at the end of my logstash.log
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:06.631000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: The circuit breaker has detected a slowdown or stall in the pipeline, the input is closing the current connection and rejecting new connection until the pipeline recover.", :exception=>LogStash::Inputs::BeatsSupport::CircuitBreaker::HalfOpenBreaker, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:06.951000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:07.452000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:07.953000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:08.454000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:08.955000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:09.460000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:09.961000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:10.462000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:10.963000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:11.464000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:11.968000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
{:timestamp=>"2016-07-11T14:20:12.469000-0400", :message=>"Beats input: the pipeline is blocked, temporary refusing new connection.", :reconnect_backoff_sleep=>0.5, :level=>:warn}
My logstash config files are:
02-beats-input.conf
input {
beats {
type => beats
port => 5044
congestion_threshold => "40"
}
}
10-syslog-filter.conf:
filter {
if [type] == "syslog" {
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}])?: %{GREEDYDATA:syslog_message}" }
add_field => [ "received_at", "%{@timestamp}" ]
add_field => [ "received_from", "%{host}" ]
}
syslog_pri { }
date {
match => [ "syslog_timestamp", "MMM d HH:mm:ss", "MMM dd HH:mm:ss" ]
}
}
}
30-elasticsearch-output.conf:
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
sniffing => true
manage_template => false
index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
}
stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}
Please let me know if you need any more information. I saw that there was a similar post made to which adding the http protocol to the output plugin which actually caused my LS to stop working as far as I could tell.