Issues with multiline events props.conf

[sunnyb147]

Hi Everyone,

Requesting small help with configuring props.conf which can help me to break the multiline events correctly. These are two types of events which I am trying to ingest for the first one either a part is being ingested or the event is broken for the second one(in a single line) that is ingesting without any issues.

I tried below props.conf but no luck, I am just a newbie therefore requesting your help. For BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE I added the rex so that it can capture and break both types of events.

[testing]
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE={(\s+|)"transaction-id"(\s+|):(\s+|)"
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false
NO_BINARY_CHECK=1
TRUNCATE=0
MAX_EVENTS=1024

{
  "transaction-id" : "steve-123",
  "usecase-id" : "123",
  "timestamp" : "2021-03-07T06:51:27,188+0100",
  "timestamp-out" : "2021-03-07T06:51:27,188+0100",
  "component" : "A",
  "payload" : "{\"error\":\"Internal server error\",\"message\":\"Internal server error\",\"description\":\"The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request\"}",
  "country-code" : "IN",
  "status" : "error",
  "error-code" : "500",
  "error" : "Internal Server Error",
  "message-size" : 176,
  "logpoint" : "response"
}

{"transaction-id":"steve-456","usecase-id":"456","timestamp":"2021-03-07T06:51:27,188+0100","timestamp-out":"2021-03-07T06:51:27,188+0100","component":"B","payload":"{\"error\":\"Internalservererror\",\"message\":\"Internalservererror\",\"description\":\"The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request\"}","country-code":"IN","status":"error","error-code":"500","error":"Internal Server Error","message-size":176,"logpoint":"response"}

Thanks,

Sunny

[scelikok]

Hi @sunnyb147,

You can use builtin _json sourcetype, it will ingest correctly;

[ _json ]
CHARSET=UTF-8
INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS=json
KV_MODE=none
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=true
category=Structured
description=JavaScript Object Notation format. For more information, visit http://json.org/
disabled=false
pulldown_type=true

[sunnyb147]

@scelikok Thanks for the suggestion but still the event which is being ingested is broken.

{
  "transaction-id" : "novotel-123",
  "usecase-id" : "123",
  "timestamp" : "2021-03-22T06:51:27,188+0100",
  "timestamp-out" : "2021-03-22T06:51:27,188+0100",
  "component" : "A",
  "payload" : "{\"error\":\"Internal server error\",\"message\":\"Internal server error\",\"description\":\"The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request\"}",
  "country-code" : "IN",
  "status" : "error",
  "error-code" : "500",
  "error" : "Internal Server Error",
  "caller-id" : "",
  "message-size" : 176,
  "logpoint" : "response-out"
}

I appended above event in the log file but over index I received broken one: 

{
  "transaction-id" : "novotel-123",
  "usecase-id" : "123",
  "timestamp" : "2021-03-22T06:51:27,188+0100",
  "timestamp-out" : "2021-03-22T06:51:27,188+0100",
  "component" : "A",
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[to4kawa]

[testing]
LINE_BREAKER=([\r\n]+){\"transaction-id
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false
NO_BINARY_CHECK=1
TRUNCATE=0
MAX_EVENTS=1024

LINE_BREAKER is better.

[sunnyb147]

@to4kawa Thanks for your response, but unfortunately its still the same, the event which is being ingested is broken.

I tried changing the limit of MAX_EVENTS but then too it is not helping 😕