Thanks for the explanation, indeed that does it !

-- 
Mathieu


On 26 June 2013 13:58, Botond Botyanszki <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a feature, not a bug, as documented here:
> http://nxlog.org/nxlog-docs/en/nxlog-reference-manual.html#xm_json_proc_to_json
> The reason is to avoid cyclic problems caused by this, since to_json()
> overwrites the $raw_event field.
> This will do what you need:
>   $Message = $raw_event; to_json();
>
> Regards,
> Botond
>
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:31:30 +0200
> Mathieu GELI <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using im_file input module with a line-based logfile and have an
>> "Exec to_json();" directive (tested on input and output). The problem
>> is that nxlog (MSI 2.4.1054) outputs a log whithout the actuall line
>> content, only metadata like :
>>
>> $timstamp1 machine {"EventReceivedTime": "$timestamp1",
>> "SourceModuleName": "$inputname", "SourceModuleType": "im_file"}
>> $timstamp2 machine {"EventReceivedTime": "$timestamp2",
>> "SourceModuleName": "$inputname", "SourceModuleType": "im_file"}
>> [...]
>>
>> The configuration to achieve that is the following :
>>
>> <Extension json>
>>     Module  xm_json
>> </Extension>
>>
>> <Input sec>
>>     Module  im_msvistalog
>> </Input>
>>
>> <Input file>
>>     Module  im_file
>>     File       "C:\\test.log"
>>     InputType LineBased
>> </Input>
>>
>> <Output out>
>>     Module om_tcp
>>     Host     1.2.3.4
>>     Port      514
>>     Exec     to_json();
>> </Output>
>>
>> <Route 1>
>>     Path     file,sec => out
>> </Route>
>>
>> Is that a known bug ? Do you have to manually parse the log line to
>> get it builded into json ? I don't expect to have magically structured
>> fields but just a field Message="line content here" in my JSON export.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> --
>> Mathieu
>>
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