[syslog-ng] json destination config help

[Zoltan Pallagi (zpallagi)]

Hi,

The output of syslog-ng -V would be useful.

Is this syslog-ng shipped with your distro or compiled by yourself?
format-json() is an old function of syslog-ng (I think 6-7 years old) and the error message means that your syslog-ng does not know it.

If this syslog-ng is shipped with your distro, then you should upgrade the syslog-ng to the latest one. If it is compiled by yourself, then something was wrong during the compilation.
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Hi Attila –

Entire output is attached.   Last lines says:

Error parsing affile, Error compiling template, error=Unknown template function "format-json" in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf at line 161, column 36:



   file("/var/log/d.json" template("$(format-json --scope syslog)\n"));

                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^





Husen



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Hi!



Please start syslog-ng with -Fedtv flags, and copy the output here.



Regards,

Attila

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The problem is that with this d_json config, syslog-ng will NOT start.  Any suggestion?





Hi community,

I’m trying to have syslog-ng to write logs to json.

My d_json_syslog-ng.conf:



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├── conf.d

│   ├── d_json_syslog-ng.conf

│   └── es.conf.bak

├── patterndb.d

├── scl.conf

└── syslog-ng.conf
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