On 31/03/2020, at 7:05 PM, Antal Nemes (anemes) <Antal.Nemes@oneidentity.com> wrote:

Just another idea that may give a clue.

If you start syslog-ng with foreground with debug and trace leve (syslog-ng -Fevdt)l, syslog-ng

a couple more data points:

 /usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/sbin/syslog-ng -Fedv -s -f ~/short.conf
 gives no errors and includes

[2020-04-01T15:06:30.869576] Reading shared object for a candidate module; path='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/lib/syslog-ng', fname='libhttp.so', module='http'
[2020-04-01T15:06:30.871503] Registering candidate plugin; module='http', context='destination', name='http'

endis with:

[2020-04-01T15:06:30.892770] Starting to read include file; filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/syslogconf/plugin.conf', depth='2'
[2020-04-01T15:06:30.893592] Module loaded and initialized successfully; module='confgen'
[2020-04-01T15:06:30.894031] Finishing include; filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/syslogconf/plugin.conf', depth='2'
[2020-04-01T15:06:30.894188] Finishing include; filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/etc/scl.conf', depth='1'
[2020-04-01T15:06:30.894717] Module loaded and initialized successfully; module='afsocket'
Error parsing destination statement, destination plugin elasticsearch_http not found in /home/rful011/short.conf:11:3-11:21:
6           network( transport("tcp") flags(no-multi-line) port(1514) keep-alive(yes));
7       };
8       
9       
10      destination d_elastic {
11---->   elasticsearch_http(
11---->   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and 

rful011@secmgrprd02:~$ /usr/local/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng -V -s -f ~/short.conf 
syslog-ng 3 (3.26.1)
Config version: 3.22
Installer-Version: 3.26.1
Revision: 
Compile-Date: Mar 31 2020 08:54:40
Module-Directory: /usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/lib/syslog-ng
Module-Path: /usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/lib/syslog-ng
Include-Path: /usr/local/syslog-ng-3.26.1/share/syslog-ng/include
Available-Modules: add-contextual-data,affile,afprog,afsocket,afstomp,afuser,appmodel,azure-auth-header,basicfuncs,cef,confgen,cryptofuncs,csvparser,timestamp,dbparser,disk-buffer,examples,geoip2-plugin,tfgetent,graphite,hook-commands,http,json-plugin,kvformat,linux-kmsg-format,map-value-pairs,pseudofile,mod-python,snmptrapd-parser,stardate,syslogformat,system-source,tags-parser,xml
Enable-Debug: off
Enable-GProf: off
Enable-Memtrace: off
Enable-IPv6: on
Enable-Spoof-Source: off
Enable-TCP-Wrapper: off
Enable-Linux-Caps: off
Enable-Systemd: off