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<div class="">On 19/12/2020, at 2:40 PM, Russell Fulton <<a href="mailto:r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz" class="">r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</div>
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I have been using the elasticsearch_http driver to push stuff into ES for well over a year. Now I am trying to use the Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) to manage these indexes and finding it very confusing. There seem to be holes in the ES docs and help on
their forum is a bit erratic. <br class="">
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The most confusing thing is the “rollover index alias” and I have yet to find a coherent explanation of exactly what it does and how to set it. Most of the documentation seems to assume you are using filebeat, logstash or datastreams.<br class="">
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So far as I can see you syslog-ng can not write to datastreams as you need to use “create” rather than “index”.
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If anyone has a working set up that they are happy to share it would be wonderful.<br class="">
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<div>This is getting weirder !</div>
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<div>ES is now failing to create my new index at all in spite of the destination definition being practically identical to one that works:</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">destination d_auth_elastic</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> {</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">elasticsearch_http(</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> index(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"auth_${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> type(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #9d206f" class="">"_doc"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> persist-name(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #9d206f" class="">"auth"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> template(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"$(format-json --scope nv-pairs --exclude HOST_FROM
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude HOST </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude srcip* </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude SOURCE </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude PROGRAM </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude 0 </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude 1 </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude PID </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude LEGACY_MSGHDR </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --key ISODATE)\n"</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span>
<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> url(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"<a href="http://secesprd01.its.auckland.ac.nz:9200/_bulk" class="">http://secesprd01.its.auckland.ac.nz:9200/_bulk</a>"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">destination d_authm_elastic</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> {</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">elasticsearch_http(</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> index(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"auth-000001"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> type(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #9d206f" class="">""</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> template(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"$(format-json --scope nv-pairs --exclude HOST_FROM
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> --exclude LEGACY_MSGHDR )\n"</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span>
<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> url(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">"<a href="http://secesprd01.its.auckland.ac.nz:9200/_bulk" class="">http://secesprd01.its.auckland.ac.nz:9200/_bulk</a>"</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">};</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">source(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> s_loghost );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">parser(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> p_patterns );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">filter(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> f_classified );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">filter(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> f_ping999 );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">filter(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> f_forti_stats
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_user1 );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_user2 );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_srcip );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">parser(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> p_srcip );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_srcip_country
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_srcip_city);</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_src_loc);</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">rewrite(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> r_ISODATE );</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">destination(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> d_auth_elastic
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">destination(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> d_authm_elastic);</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">flags(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> flow-control);</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">};</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Menlo;" class="">d_auth_elastic </span>works fine but <span style="font-family: Menlo;" class="">d_authm_elastic
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Anyone have any clues as to what is going on?</div>
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