Marcus,

Try this as a potential work around:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/kafka-output.html

You should be able to aggregate your log data into a Kafka topic and then
consume that with NiFi.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:37 AM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am not very familiar with beats or this processor specifically but it
> does appear to have some beats specific framing that it does by looking at
> the processor code.  Json based framing appears supported as well but it
> isn't clear that it would be or is intended to be valid JSON in a combined
> sense.  With that in mind it isn't clear you can expect to use the JSON
> based processors/readers after this.
>
> Hopefully someone with more experience in the processor and its intended
> use can comment soon.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:07 AM Ling, Marcus <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Anybody using the ListenBeats processor to pull auditing info from centos
>> (audit/file beats) -> NIFI?
>>
>>
>>
>> Some of the flowfiles have corrupted JSON. (Noticed when using the
>> EvaluateJsonpath processor.)
>>
>>
>>
>> I thought beats-> listenbeats was already json format.
>>
>>
>>
>> The corruption is where >1 audit event seems to get munged into 1 record,
>> this no longer json format! help!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
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