Any input on this at all? And the subject should say "field" not "filed"... 
apologies for the typo.

Cheers, Pete

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 10:45:16 UTC+10, Pete GS wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sending my VMware vCenter server logs and Windows event logs into 
> Graylog using nxlog-ce to send to GELF UDP inputs.
>
> I'm getting confused as to why the "message" field is truncated compared 
> with the "full_message".
>
> At this point I have not tried defining any fields in nxlog for these nor 
> have I defined any extractors on the inputs.
>
> What can cause these messages to be truncated? I'm assuming Graylog is 
> trying to process these into various fields which is leading to the 
> truncated message but I'm not sure how I can overcome this.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> full_message: vpxd2015-06-24T10:36:18.302+10:00 info vpxd[10384] 
> [Originator@6876 sub=vpxLro 
> opID=opId-f89b4b1a-bd95-48fa-8193-d7f494ae37b2-3d-5a] [VpxLRO] -- FINISH 
> task-internal-2506
>
> message: vpxd2015-06-24T10:36:18.302+10:00 info vpxd[10384] [Originator@6
>
> I am seeing the same behaviour for the Windows events and here's an 
> example:
>
> full_message: The system call to get account information completed. 
> CN=VMM01,CN=Computers,DC=lab,DC=melbourneit,DC=com The call completed in 0 
> milliseconds.
>
> message: The system call to get account information completed. 
> CN=VMM01
>
> Here are the two relevant inputs used in nxlog.conf:
>
> <Input InEvents>
>     Module      im_msvistalog
>     EXEC if $ObjectName =~ /\\Nimsoft\\probes\\/ drop();
> </Input>
>
> <Input VPXD>
>     Module im_file
>     File "C:\\ProgramData\\VMware\\VMware 
> VirtualCenter\\Logs\\vpxd-[0-9]*.log"
>     SavePos TRUE
>     ReadFromLast TRUE
>     Exec $Message = 'vpxd' + $raw_event;
> </Input>
>
> I'm guessing It's probably going to be something as simple as defining 
> fields in nxlog but I'm not real sure on that and am hoping someone else 
> has come across this and has a solution or at least some pointers in the 
> right direction.
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers, Pete
>

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