On 14/12/15 02:17, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> GELF and GELF_UDP generate compressed payload that is not suitable for
> TCP/TLS. You should use GELF_TCP for the latter.
> See the NXLog Reference Manual.


...but graylog does not support compression over TCP channels - only
over UDP (that's what the link says)

I'm piping this over the Internet, so it needs to be TCP (because the
Internet is lossy)

I think what you're saying is that there isn't an option for disabling
compression for GELF?

Thanks

Jason

>
> Regards,
> Botond
>
>
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:09:03 +1300
> Jason Haar <jason_h...@trimble.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> graylog-server only supports GELF compression over UDP  (*), but nxlog
>> appears to use it at least for GELF/TLS too. Is there a way of disabling
>> compression? I'm wanting to run nxlog over TLS for privacy and
>> reliability reasons, but it appears only UDP will work with graylog-server
>>
>> (*) https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/428
>>
>> ie with TLS I was seeing the following errors on graylog-server
>>
>> 2015-12-11T15:19:56.480-05:00 ERROR [GelfCodec] Could not parse JSON,
>> first 400 characters: ��A    ��Q��
>>
>> but once I went to UDP, they disappeared
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> PS: are you aware the nxlog-ce-users archive on sourceforge.net isn't
>> accessible? I tried to review old postings about this but got a 403
>> error: "Read access required"
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jason Haar
>> Corporate Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
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