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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am trying to set up syslog-ng to elasticsearch, not using as the middleware. According to
<a href="https://www.balabit.com/blog/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng-fast-and-simple/">
https://www.balabit.com/blog/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng-fast-and-simple/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">it is doable. However, I am not finding an example that works for my config.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I have syslog-ng version 3.11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elasticsearch 2.4.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All running on one machine with Ubuntu 16.04.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My syslog-ng is standard with the @include for the conf.d directory. In which I had hoped to create a working elsasticsearch.conf to define the how to send the logs.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Likewise I have syslog-ng-mod-elasticsearch installed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any help or pointing me to some examples would be great.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.ebsco.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.ebsco.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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