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Syslog
editSyslog
editThe syslog processor parses RFC 3146 and/or RFC 5424 formatted syslog messages that are stored in a field. The processor itself does not handle receiving syslog messages from external sources. This is done through an input, such as the TCP input. Certain integrations, when enabled through configuration, will embed the syslog processor to process syslog messages, such as Custom TCP Logs and Custom UDP Logs.
Configuration
editThe syslog
processor parses RFC 3146 and/or RFC 5424 formatted syslog messages
that are stored under the field
key.
The supported configuration options are:
-
field
-
(Required) Source field containing the syslog message. Defaults to
message
. -
format
-
(Optional) The syslog format to use,
rfc3164
, orrfc5424
. To automatically detect the format from the log entries, set this option toauto
. The default isauto
. -
timezone
-
(Optional) IANA time zone name(e.g.
America/New York
) or a fixed time offset (e.g. +0200) to use when parsing syslog timestamps that do not contain a time zone.Local
may be specified to use the machine’s local time zone. Defaults toLocal
. -
overwrite_keys
-
(Optional) A boolean that specifies whether keys that already
exist in the event are overwritten by keys from the syslog message. The
default value is
true
. -
ignore_missing
-
(Optional) If
true
the processor will not return an error when a specified field does not exist. Defaults tofalse
. -
ignore_failure
-
(Optional) Ignore all errors produced by the processor.
Defaults to
false
. -
tag
- (Optional) An identifier for this processor. Useful for debugging.
Example:
processors: - syslog: field: message
{ "message": "<165>1 2022-01-11T22:14:15.003Z mymachine.example.com eventslog 1024 ID47 [exampleSDID@32473 iut=\"3\" eventSource=\"Application\" eventID=\"1011\"][examplePriority@32473 class=\"high\"] this is the message" }
Will produce the following output:
{ "@timestamp": "2022-01-11T22:14:15.003Z", "log": { "syslog": { "priority": 165, "facility": { "code": 20, "name": "local4" }, "severity": { "code": 5, "name": "Notice" }, "hostname": "mymachine.example.com", "appname": "eventslog", "procid": "1024", "msgid": "ID47", "version": 1, "structured_data": { "exampleSDID@32473": { "iut": "3", "eventSource": "Application", "eventID": "1011" }, "examplePriority@32473": { "class": "high" } } } }, "message": "this is the message" }
Timestamps
editThe RFC 3164 format accepts the following forms of timestamps:
-
Local timestamp (
Mmm dd hh:mm:ss
):-
Jan 23 14:09:01
-
-
RFC-3339*:
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15Z
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15.123456Z
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15-06:00
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15.123456-06:00
-
Note: The local timestamp (for example, Jan 23 14:09:01
) that accompanies an
RFC 3164 message lacks year and time zone information. The time zone will be enriched
using the timezone
configuration option, and the year will be enriched using the
Filebeat system’s local time (accounting for time zones). Because of this, it is possible
for messages to appear in the future. An example of when this might happen is logs
generated on December 31 2021 are ingested on January 1 2022. The logs would be enriched
with the year 2022 instead of 2021.
The RFC 5424 format accepts the following forms of timestamps:
-
RFC-3339:
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15Z
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15.123456Z
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15-06:00
-
2003-10-11T22:14:15.123456-06:00
-
Formats with an asterisk (*) are a non-standard allowance.
Structured Data
editFor RFC 5424-formatted logs, if the structured data cannot be parsed according to RFC standards, the original structured data text will be prepended to the message field, separated by a space.
Metrics
editInternal metrics are available to assist with debugging efforts. The metrics
are served from the metrics HTTP endpoint (for example: http://localhost:5066/stats
)
and are found under processor.syslog.[instance ID]
or processor.syslog.[tag]-[instance ID]
if a tag is provided. See HTTP endpoint for more information on configuration the
metrics HTTP endpoint.
For example, here are metrics from a processor with a tag of log-input
and an instance ID of 1
:
{ "processor": { "syslog": { "log-input-1": { "failure": 10, "missing": 0, "success": 3 } } } }
-
failure
- Measures the number of occurrences where a message was unable to be parsed.
-
missing
- Measures the number of occurrences where an event was missing the required input field.
-
success
- Measures the number of successfully parsed syslog messages.
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