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Klaus
Klaus

Reputation: 538

Logstash delete type and keep _type

I have a logstash client and server.
The client sends logfiles with the udp output of logstash to the server and the server also runs logstash to get these logs. On the server, I have a json filter that pulls the json formatted message in the fields of the actual log, so that elasticsearch can index them.

Here is my code from the server:

input{
  udp{}
}

filter{
  json {
    source => "message"
  }
}

output{
  elasticsearch{
  }
}

And from the client:

input{
  file{
    type => "apache-access"
    path => "/var/log/apache2/access.log"
  }
}

output{
  udp{
    host => "192.168.0.3"
  }
}

This code works fine except one thing:
In some way i get the field type twice, once as type and once as _type, they have the same content.

I've tried to delete the type-field with the mutate-filter like this:

mutate{
  remove_field => [ "type" ]
}

but this filter removes both type fields.(the _type field is set to default: logs)

How can I keep the _type field and remove the type field?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1927

Answers (1)

Carson
Carson

Reputation: 31

It works for me in this way:

input { 
    file {
        add_field => { "[@metadata][type]" => "apache-access" }
        path => "/var/log/apache2/access.log"
    }
}

filter {
    ......
    if [@metadata][type] == "xxx" {

    }
    ......
}
output {
    elasticsearch {
        hosts => ["localhost:9200"] 
        index => "logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
        document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
    }
}

@metadata and document_type

Upvotes: 3

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