Useragent filter really slow

Hello logstash community.

I have a problem with useragent filter. It is pailful slow. :(( Works but really slow. Same problem with the cidr filter.

If I use the filter I may get maybe 3 events per second if I am lucky.

I am running Logstash 1.5.1 on CentOS 6.6 with java-1.8.0-openjdk

VM: 32 VCPU with 32 workers for logstash and 8G RAM

MY setup: LSF ---> REDIS ---> LSI ----> ES

If I don't use useragent filter ... the LSI it is really fast.

Here is my filter config:

filter {
if [type] == "ironport" {
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}])?: %{GREEDYDATA:syslog_message}" }
add_field => [ "received_at", "%{@timestamp}" ]
}
syslog_pri { }
date {
match => [ "syslog_timestamp", "MMM d HH:mm:ss", "MMM dd HH:mm:ss" ]
}
mutate {
replace => [ "@message", "%{syslog_message}" ]
}
if [syslog_program] == "SECLOG" {
grok {
match => {
"syslog_message" => "%{WORD:severity}: %{IP:user_ip} (-|"%{WORD:domain}\%{NOTSPACE:user}@%{WORD:realm}") %{NOTSPACE} [%{HTTPDATE}] "%{WORD:request} (|%{URIPROTO:url_proto}://)(?:%{URIHOST:url_host})?(?:%{URIPATH:url_path}(?:%{URIPARAM:url_param})?)?" %{NUMBER:response} (?:%{NUMBER:bytes}|-) %{NOTSPACE:result_code}:%{NOTSPACE:code_value} %{NUMBER} %{DATA:acl_decision_tag}-%{DATA:access_policy}-%{DATA:identity}-%{DATA} <%{GREEDYDATA:source_csv}> - %{NOTSPACE:url_ip}, %{WORD:auth_method}?, %{GREEDYDATA:user_agent_browser}" }
}
csv {
source => "source_csv"
columns => ["category","reputation_score","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","app_name","app_type","remove","remove","Average_bandwidth_KB_sec","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove","remove"]
remove_field => [ "remove" ]
}
if [syslog_hostname] == "proxy01" or [syslog_hostname] == "proxy02" {
useragent {
source => "user_agent_browser"
}
}
mutate{
remove_field => [ "source_csv", "message", "host", "@version", "syslog_message", "syslog_program" ]
}
if "_grokparsefailure" in [tags] {
drop { }
}
}
}
}

Here is a sample log:

Info: 172.16.92.32 - - [01/Jul/2015:20:41:07 -0400] "GET http://live.lemde.fr/mux.json" 304 0 TCP_MISS:DIRECT 4 ALLOW_WBRS_12-DefaultGroup-A2TZ.noAuth.ID-NONE-NONE-NONE-DefaultGroup <IW_news,3.0,1,"-",-,-,-,-,"-",-,-,-,"-",-,-,"-","-",-,-,IW_news,-,"-","-","Unknown","Unknown","-","-",986.00,0,-,"-","-",-,"-",-,-,"-","-"> - 72.21.91.8, NONE, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36"

I get what I need but really really slow.

name Chrome
os Windows 7
os_name Windows 7
patch 2357

Any suggestions ?

Regards,
Gabriel

Hi Gabriel,

The speed slowdown when using the useragent filter looks like a know issue, see https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-useragent/issues/5. At this stage there is no workaround other than developing your won grok patterns to extract what you need out of the useragent part of the message. There may very well be good examples out on the net already.

Thank you Joshua,

Was working just fine with logstash 1.4 not sure what happen.

Gabe