[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng input for beats ?

[Evan Rempel]

looks like you might be running into the maximum message size.
Try setting the syslog-ng configuration item

log_msg_size(64K);


On 05/10/2017 10:50 AM, Scot wrote:
> Using a RAW TCP seems to be loosing some of the beats header data and messages are getting concatenated.
> Trying different options but I'm fumbling.
>
>   syslog-ng[4596]: Unparsable JSON stream encountered; input='=net"},"message":"Synchronization of a replica of an Active Directory naming context has begun.\n\nDestination DRA:\tCN=NTDS Settings,CN=...blaaa"
>
>
> source s_BEATS          {network(port(5140) flags(no-parse));}
> parser p_json {
>     json-parser (prefix(".json."));
> };
> log { source(s_BEATS);  parser(p_json); destination (d_file); };
>
>
> Anyone have a howto or blog for using syslog-ng with json inputs ?
> I'm looking at the syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides but it's hard to put all the input output and parser requirements together.
>
> Trying to get here
> winlogbeat->syslog-ng->ES
> winlogbeat->syslog-ng->SPLUNKForwader
> winlogbeat->syslog-ng->/opt/syslog-ng/logs/$FROM_HOST.json
>
> or
> winlogbeat->logstash->syslog-ng->ES
> ...
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Fabien Wernli <wernli at in2p3.fr <mailto:wernli at in2p3.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:30:14PM +0000, Scot wrote:
>     > I'm trying to find a solution that will let me mirror my beats data like
>     > syslog-ng lets me do with syslog traffic.
>
>     As far as I know those tools simply send the data over TCP in JSON format.
>     If you just need to do routing using syslog-ng, you can simply use network
>     source with flags(no-parse). If you need to process the data using
>     syslog-ng, you'll also need the json-parser().
>
>     Cheers
>
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Evan Rempel                                      erempel at uvic.ca
Senior Systems Administrator                        250.721.7691
Data Centre Services, University Systems, University of Victoria

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