[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng 3.7.3 + Elasticsearch V2.3 - Error init pipeline

Thu Jun 16 17:26:05 CEST 2016

Hi,

syslog-ng 3.7 only works with Elasticsearch 1.X. For Elasticsearch 2.X
you need syslog-ng 3.8, which is still under development (alpha).

Bye,
Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Marco Mignone <info at marcomignone.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am trying to setup syslog-ng to use elasticsearch as its destination on
> Ubuntu 14.04.
> This the version of syslog (the unofficial versions installed from
> laszlo_budai rep:
>
> syslog-ng 3.7.3
> Installer-Version: 3.7.3
> Revision: 3.7.3-8
> Compile-Date: Jun  1 2016 16:33:00
> Available-Modules:
> basicfuncs,linux-kmsg-format,riemann,afuser,afstomp,afprog,json-plugin,afsmtp,affile,csvparser,mod-java,pseudofile,confgen,afsocket,afamqp,redis,sdjournal,kvformat,syslogformat,afsql,system-source,mod-python,graphite,dbparser,geoip-plugin,afmongodb,cryptofuncs
>
> Elastic search is:
>
>  "name" : "Theresa Cassidy",
>  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
>  "version" : {
>    "number" : "2.3.3",
>    "build_hash" : "218bdf10790eef486ff2c41a3df5cfa32dadcfde",
>    "build_timestamp" : "2016-05-17T15:40:04Z",
>    "build_snapshot" : false,
>    "lucene_version" : “5.5.0"
>
>
> And my custom configuration in /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/test.conf which is:
>
> @module mod-java
>
> source s_net {
>  udp();
>  tcp();
> };
>
> destination d_elastic {
>  elasticsearch(
>    index("syslog-ng_${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}")
>    type("test")
>    client_lib_dir("/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib")
>   );
> };
>
> log {
>  source(s_net);
>  destination(d_elastic);
>  flags(flow-control);
> };
>
>
> When I try to launch syslog in debug mode this is what I get:
>
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.378356] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/syslog-ng-core.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.382446] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/syslog-ng-core.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.382660] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/kafka.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.382862] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/http.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.383052] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/hdfs.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.383258] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/elastic.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.383479] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/syslog-ng-common.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.383670] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/log4j-1.2.16.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.383917] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/guava-18.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.384098] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jna-4.1.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.384293] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/spatial4j-0.5.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.384494] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/compress-lzf-1.0.2.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.386104] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-spatial-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.386342] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-backward-codecs-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.386507] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/t-digest-3.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.386677] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jackson-dataformat-cbor-2.6.6.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.386865] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-memory-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.387044] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jackson-core-2.6.6.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.387216] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/joda-time-2.8.2.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.387394] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-join-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.387673] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-grouping-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.388476] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/HdrHistogram-2.1.6.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.388647] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/compiler-0.8.13.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.388818] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/netty-3.10.5.Final.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.388972] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-misc-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.389518] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-analyzers-common-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.389711] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-sandbox-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.390094] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-2.3.3.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.390283] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/commons-cli-1.3.1.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.390488] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/snakeyaml-1.15.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.390659] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jsr166e-1.1.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.390935] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-core-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.391176] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-suggest-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.394616] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jackson-dataformat-yaml-2.6.6.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.395279] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.395458] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/joda-convert-1.2.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.395970] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/hppc-0.7.1.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.396734] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jackson-dataformat-smile-2.6.6.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.397919] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-queryparser-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.398106] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-spatial3d-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.398281] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-queries-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.398440] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.398610] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/lucene-highlighter-5.5.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.398784] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/jts-1.13.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.398925] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/securesm-1.0.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.501879] Add path to classpath:
> /usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.7/java-modules/syslog-ng-core.jar;
> [2016-06-16T15:54:29.519443] Error initializing message pipeline;
>
>
> Was anyone able to make this work or suggest a way to fix this?
> I hope I am on the right place and if not apologies in advance.
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
>
>
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