[graylog2] Re: New to Graylog and Elasticsearch; have some questions

2016-11-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Ahh, if you want to go HA, you can use their tool to get estimates: https://www.graylog.org/tools/sizing-estimator On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 5:50:17 AM UTC+13, Joshua Waclawski wrote: > > As the title states, I'm pretty new to Graylog and Elasticsearch. I've > read the documentation

[graylog2] Re: New to Graylog and Elasticsearch; have some questions

2016-11-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi Joshua, Hardware requirements: It is obviously very difficult to give you exact numbers. The requirements for 300 syslog messages vs 300 multi-line logs where one extracts 50 key value pairs per entry will have different requirements. That said, 300 messages is trivial and you can get away

[graylog2] Re: System level monitoring(lowdisk, high cpu, ram util, iostat) through graylog2

2016-11-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
There's obviously a few options, easiest at this stage will probably be MetricBeat On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:07:11 AM UTC+13, Mohit Mehral wrote: > > Please suggest how to push linux machine system level(lowdisk, high cpu, > ram util, iostat) alerts to graylog2 > > I don't want to use

[graylog2] Re: Changing NXLOG confiig service won't start

2016-11-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Not 100% on what you mean with REM statement? I presume you mean you add a hash/pound at the beginning of the line? Also look in the nxlog log file for some tips on what the issue could be. Maybe paste your non-starting config as well, but, as was mentioned, this is not really the forum for

[graylog2] Metrics Plugin In Clustered Environment

2016-11-20 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi, We are running 3 Graylog nodes behind a round-robin load balancer that balancer all comms to Graylog over the three nodes. I was curious how the metrics output plugin manages this. The output plugin is set to send data every 60 seconds. Graphite storage schema is set to 1 minute as well.

Re: [graylog2] Re: Metrics output - modify value before sending

2016-11-18 Thread Werner van der Merwe
t; > Make sure to use the latest version of the plugin. If the problem still > occurs, please open a new issue at https://github.com/ > Graylog2/graylog-plugin-metrics/issues/. > > Cheers, > Jochen > > On Friday, 18 November 2016 03:47:25 UTC+1, Werner van der Merwe wrote:

[graylog2] Metrics output - modify value before sending

2016-11-17 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi, I am using MetricBeat to ship metrics from Windows boxes to Graylog, then the Metrics plugin to get those in Graphite. Unfortunately, Metricbeat ship the cpu percentages as the decimal value, thus 10% is represented as 0.1 I assume the metrics plugin converts them to integer as all my

[graylog2] Re: Unable to get Geo-Location to work

2016-11-03 Thread Werner van der Merwe
What stumps me more, is I have just added another host, in the Eventlog it has a Destination Address IP, this is being updated and a _geolocation field added. Any idea why it would work on *some* fields and not others? On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 8:55:03 AM UTC+13, Werner van der Merwe

[graylog2] Unable to get Geo-Location to work

2016-11-03 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Slightly stumped, followed the doco and some threads online of others struggling. Here's what I've done so far: Download the MaxMind binary from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ In the "Message Processors Configuration", ensure GeoIP resolver is the last step. Under Plugins,

[graylog2] MongoDB issues

2016-09-24 Thread Werner van der Merwe
I am fairly sure I am missing something obvious here.. I've upgraded another site's Graylog instance, but having some issues with mongodb: grep mongo /etc/graylog/server/server.conf mongo_uri = mongodb://127.0.0.1/graylog2 Yet none of my inputs / saved searches and dashboards appear:

Re: [graylog2] Re: Graylog configuration of filebeat and graylog collector sidecar

2016-09-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi Kunal, Kindly paste your configs, from what I can make out in the screenshot, your newline identifier is not set correctly. The %{host} is more than likely from incorrectly parsing the logs. If you're willing to try NXLog, they have snipets for the config in their doco:

[graylog2] Problem using sidecar with Win2003

2016-09-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Due to some legacy software still in process of being migrated, we have a few Windows Server 2003 (i386) boxes about. Installing sidecar goes without problem, but I am unable to start sidecar: C:\Program Files\graylog\collector-sidecar>graylog-collector-sidecar.exe -service install panic:

Re: [graylog2] Sidecar permission denied error

2016-09-07 Thread Werner van der Merwe
n centos/redhat > machines. > > Out of curiosity, how many sidecars are you running in parallel? > > Cheers, > Marius > > On 7 September 2016 at 06:08, Werner van der Merwe < > wernervdme...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wernervdme...@gmail.com');&

[graylog2] Re: Sidecar permission denied error

2016-09-06 Thread Werner van der Merwe
NXlog's User and Group is set to root as well -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graylog Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to graylog2+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on

[graylog2] Sidecar permission denied error

2016-09-06 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi, We've rolled sidecar out on most of our CentOS farm with huge success. We're facing some uphill with a legacy app using Postgres 9.1 running on Ubuntu 12.05. ==> /var/log/graylog/collector-sidecar/nxlog_stderr.log <== 2016-09-07 15:44:12 ERROR failed to open

[graylog2] Re: Extractor for multiple regex groups

2016-08-28 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Possible duplicate of https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/2742 ? On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 11:30:28 AM UTC+12, Werner van der Merwe wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that if I create an extractor, I have to create an extractor for > each field I want to store,

[graylog2] Extractor for multiple regex groups

2016-08-28 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi, It seems that if I create an extractor, I have to create an extractor for each field I want to store, is this correct? If so, what would be helpful (for me), and what I am using NXLog for at the moment, is to have to option to extract and store multiple regex groups in one extracter. For

[graylog2] sidecar-collector feature

2016-08-09 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Currently in our setup we use a lot of Execs inside an input block. Is the only way to have execs currently to rather create snippets? Would it be able be to have a custom text block in the input section to add some custom code per input to add any custom snippets inside a specific input? --

[graylog2] Sidecar: When would you need more than one tag in a configuration?

2016-07-15 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi, this confuses me a bit. I understand a host can have multiple tags to combine multiple configurations, for example an apache server can have tags linux and apache. As I understand it, for this, two configurations will be created, one with a tag called linux and one with a tag called

[graylog2] Duplicate node in cluster

2016-02-03 Thread Werner van der Merwe
I am trying to add another graylog-server node in order to expand our install from a single graylog server and a single ES server. Looking at the ES logs both nodes join with their own hostnames. Looking at the Graylog interface under System -> Nodes, the first node is duplicated. Even the JVM

[graylog2] Re: Guide to setting up HA

2015-11-29 Thread Werner van der Merwe
You are correct, it is not a huge setup, which acts in your favour. If you want HA just for the data rather than the service, you can look at having a single Graylog-server instance and rather have 2 or 3 Elasticsearch hosts. The Graylog-server does not retain data, it routes all to the data

[graylog2] More HA woes

2015-11-29 Thread Werner van der Merwe
We are reaching resource capacity on the single graylog-server we have. Currently I have one machine running mongodb and graylog-server and another server running ES. This has been working like a charm, but I am now hitting CPU starvation on the graylog-servers two or three times a day during

[graylog2] Re: [Saved_searches] exexute save search from any stream

2015-11-29 Thread Werner van der Merwe
To my knowledge no, as the stream identifier would still be enforced in the search bar. IMHO, If one changes that behaviour, one will run into issues with people having more than one saved search related to a selected stream, or, what if you have the same criteria that you want to select over

[graylog2] Re: Proxy out specific data

2015-11-29 Thread Werner van der Merwe
If I understand correctly, you have one Graylog server receiving everything, but you want specific data to go to another Graylog server? If that is the case, you can look at setting up a stream rule for those logs and have the stream output to a GELP output pointing to the other Graylog server.

[graylog2] Re: CSV to LOGSTASH to GRAYLOG

2015-11-29 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Do make sure it is not a timestamp parsing issue, are you able to look at messages from the beginning of time that has that source and maybe input type to narrow it down? I fell victim to a funny timezone issue, which caused my logs to all be 13h behind and on a previous occasion importing with

[graylog2] Re: Previously working stream got auto-paused, now doesn't work at all after unpause.

2015-11-24 Thread Werner van der Merwe
I faced a similar issue once and the only way I could 'fix' it was by deleting the journal from disk and restart Graylog-server. That will destroy your backlog though.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graylog Users" group. To unsubscribe from this

[graylog2] Using Graylog metrics plugin to graph HTTP response codes

2015-11-15 Thread Werner van der Merwe
I was wondering if there was a way to use the plugin to send counters per metric to graphite. Seems that I have to create a stream and an output per code, eg 200,500,401,402 etc? The other option would be to create a dashboard widget and query the widget via the API, but using a stream would

Re: [graylog2] Re: How do I graph the cardinality of a dataset?

2015-11-15 Thread Werner van der Merwe
be honest, my question is a little contrived > and our actual use-case data is considerably more complex. I am right in > saying that this type of pivot is just not possible in graylog-web at the > moment? > > P. > > On 16 November 2015 at 10:28, Werner van der Mer

Re: [graylog2] Re: Two Graylog2 streams to dedicated Outputs all going to first graphite output only

2015-11-08 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Think I've answered part of my question m1_rate is not representing the count of logs over the last minute, but the mean rate of logs over the last minute. So if we get 10 log/sec, the m1_rate will be still be 10, regardless of the fact that we received 600 logs. In this case using 10*60

Re: [graylog2] Re: Two Graylog2 streams to dedicated Outputs all going to first graphite output only

2015-11-07 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Marius, you've been a great help so far - hopefully you would permit me one more question. I am a little stumped on how to get total messages in a stream for the period. For example, using a 1 minute search (2015-11-02 19:59:00 +13:00 to 2015-11-02 20:00:00 +13:00) in Graylog, returns 1757

Re: [graylog2] Re: Weird behaviour after upgrade

2015-11-06 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Mmmm... that is weird... If you restart graylog-server, any detail in the logs that could point to the issue? Also, is Graylog operational apart from not being able to see the notification? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graylog Users" group. To

[graylog2] Re: Required disk space for a new graylog2 installation unter Linux...

2015-11-05 Thread Werner van der Merwe
> > Interesting - that ratio seems a little out of balance. 15M for ES for 13 > servers sounds quite light. > You can maybe get some more info on what is using space in Mongo doing the > following: > On the server hosting mongodb: mongo (This will enter the

[graylog2] Re: Two Graylog2 streams to dedicated Outputs all going to first graphite output only

2015-11-05 Thread Werner van der Merwe
This is working perfectly! Thanks a ton - been mailing all our chief IT folk blasting the trumpet of Graylog's support. (We are predominantly a Microsoft house using Splunk, so I am hard at work proving Graylog is better!) If I may be as bold/opportunistic for one more question... It seems I

[graylog2] Re: Two Graylog2 streams to dedicated Outputs all going to first graphite output only

2015-11-05 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Apologies, should have mentioned I only have one numeric field which I am using in the histogram and seems I can't re-use the field for another function. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graylog Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [graylog2] Re: Weird behaviour after upgrade

2015-11-05 Thread Werner van der Merwe
, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Dennis Brouwer <den...@tamtam.nl> wrote: > No, it just keeps loading :( > > *--* > *Tam Tam* > Dennis Brouwer > 06 21 86 90 88 > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Werner van der Merwe < > wernervdme...@gmail.com> wrote: >

[graylog2] How does streams (and as a result the graphite plugin) handle buffered messages

2015-11-05 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Thanks to the great help from this forum, I have now submitted our production dashboard to upper management. I do have one question - during a peak period, messages may be buffered and processed when the server has resources. How would streams and the graphite plugin send those messages? In

[graylog2] Re: help !!!!! for a newbie

2015-11-04 Thread Werner van der Merwe
The ova is certainly the easiest way to get started. We had a requirement of having to run RedHat, so I went with the puppet manifests, which is also fairly easy with some reading required. Using the manifests will effectively install the product via apt-get. Partitioning is up to you, if you

[graylog2] Re: create custom chart

2015-11-04 Thread Werner van der Merwe
I am not 100% sure what you mean, but there are two ways to generate detail graphs: Both: Filter the logs until you only see the logs you are interested in using search. Option 1: On the left, select the blue triangle to expand the ID field, then select Quick Values. That will give you a pie

[graylog2] Two Graylog2 streams to dedicated Outputs all going to first graphite output only

2015-11-04 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hi, I have two streams: LDAP Results and LDAP Searches. Each goes to a separate Graphite Output. The first stream, indicating results, works correct and is configured as such: - prefix: org.graylog.ldap.prod.results - url: graphite://XX:2003 - fields:

[graylog2] Re: new messages not processed

2015-11-04 Thread Werner van der Merwe
> > > First option will be to ensure processing is not paused in System/Nodes => Nodes, click on the Node name. Make sure the top right is not saying that it is not processing any messages - click resume processing if this is the case. If this was paused, give it some time to recover.

[graylog2] Re: Weird behaviour after upgrade

2015-11-04 Thread Werner van der Merwe
If you click System/Overview and select Overview, can you then see the notification? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graylog Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[graylog2] Re: Selecting range via histogram returns zero results (More Timezone woes?)

2015-09-01 Thread Werner van der Merwe
It did indeed! Thanks very much On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 1:31:19 PM UTC+12, Drew Miranda wrote: > > Does running "Recalculate Index Ranges" (System -> Indices -> Maintenance) > help? > > On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 6:43:00 PM UTC-5, Werner van der Mer

[graylog2] Re: Selecting range via histogram returns zero results (More Timezone woes?)

2015-08-30 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Another update - doing the same absolute search via Kibana, 2015-08-31 00:00:00 to 2015-08-31 10:00:00, gets 2.4M hits, so I am thinking it is a timezone interpretation of graylog-web maybe? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Graylog Users group.

[graylog2] Selecting range via histogram returns zero results (More Timezone woes?)

2015-08-30 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this. Messages are displayed in the histogram and the Messages section in the correct datetime. Use case: The histogram reports 800k messages in an hourly bucket of 31-Aug 00:00:00. Using the drag and select feature in the histogram to select 31-Aug

[graylog2] Yet another timezone question!

2015-08-21 Thread Werner van der Merwe
Seems like this is quite a hot topic, but unfortunately I am still a little lost. I am sending logs to Graylog via nxlog, all dates seems correct apart from the Timestamp and thus Histogram. In Timezone configuration, all zones are set to local time (GMT +12) The timestamp variable is set