Great to hear it worked! :) Just ping the mailing list if any more
questions should arise.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Jeff Schoolcraft
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
>
> Thanks, "Raw/Plaintext UDP" listening on 514 did the trick, I see messages!
>
> Now to go from syslog to GELF without throwing away 1/2 GB RAM using
> logstash :)
>
> --
> Jeff Schoolcraft
>
> On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Lennart Koopmann wrote:
>
> Hey Jeff,
>
> from what I can see you spawned UDP syslog inputs. Those inputs expect
> syslog RFC compliant messages. Do you send such messages from your
> script? All 530 messages you sent were rejected as incomplete
> (non-compliant).
>
> I suggest you try this: Start a "Raw/Plaintext UDP" input and point
> your script to it. Those inputs do not expect any specific format and
> just store any text they get until the first newline delimiter (\n). I
> am pretty sure this will show the messages. They won't have any
> information extracted to fields though. There are several ways to
> address that and the easiest might be:
>
> * Send GELF from your script. It is easy to construct GELF messages
> in your favorite language: http://graylog2.org/gelf#libraries
> * Keep sending raw/plaintext messages and use the Graylog2
> extractors to extract data to fields.
>
> Thanks for attaching the metrics. This made debugging this really
> easy. Awesome! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Lennart
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Jeff Schoolcraft
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a newly installed graylog2 server (The stats from the rsyslog
> listener: graylog2-web-interface v0.20.0-preview.8) and I've set up 2
> listeners udp gelf and udp rsyslog.
>
> I used a small script to pipe output from an nginx access log to the graylog
> server over udp and it's getting messages but not storing them.
>
> I also switched a running app currently logging messages to a v0.11.0 server
> to the new graylog server, it too shows up in stats but isn't storing any
> events.
>
> How can I debug this?
>
> Here are the metrics from the syslog parser.
>
>
>
> org.graylog2.inputs.syslog.udp.SyslogUDPInput.3bd9b418-3441-4bdd-b1aa-125a2ffa04c8.incomingMessages
>
> Meter
>
>
> Total:530 eventsMean:0.09 events/sec1 minute avg:0.1 events/sec5 minute
> avg:0.13 events/sec15 minute avg:0.13 events/sec
>
> org.graylog2.inputs.syslog.udp.SyslogUDPInput.3bd9b418-3441-4bdd-b1aa-125a2ffa04c8.incompleteMessages
>
> Meter
>
>
> Total:530 eventsMean:0.09 events/sec1 minute avg:0.1 events/sec5 minute
> avg:0.13 events/sec15 minute avg:0.13 events/sec
>
> org.graylog2.inputs.syslog.udp.SyslogUDPInput.3bd9b418-3441-4bdd-b1aa-125a2ffa04c8.parsingFailures
>
> Meter
>
>
> Total:0 eventsMean:0 events/sec1 minute avg:0 events/sec5 minute avg:0
> events/sec15 minute avg:0 events/sec
>
> org.graylog2.inputs.syslog.udp.SyslogUDPInput.3bd9b418-3441-4bdd-b1aa-125a2ffa04c8.processedMessages
>
> Meter
>
>
> Total:0 eventsMean:0 events/sec1 minute avg:0 events/sec5 minute avg:0
> events/sec15 minute avg:0 events/sec
>
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