rsyslog/contrib/mmgrok

Grok Message Modify Plugin

Using hundreds of grok patterns from logstash-patterns-core.

Build

This plugin requires json-c, glib and grok package.

If you use RH/CentOS/Fedora, you'll have to build grok rpms by yourself as follow:

    sudo yum install -y yum-utils rpmdevtools
    git clone git@github.com:jordansissel/grok.git
    mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/; cp grok/grok.spec.template ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/grok.spec
    (mkdir -p ~/rpmbuld/SOURCES/; cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/; spectool -g ../SPECS/grok.spec)
    sudo yum-builddep ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/grok.spec
    rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/grok.spec
    # use yum command instead of rpm, because grok depends on libevent, pcre, tokyocabinet
    sudo yum install -y libjson-c-devel glib-devel ~/rpbuild/RPMS/x86_64/grok*.rpm

Note: at least on Fedora, when building mmgrok one needs to set CFLAGS to
include the output of the following: $(pkg-config --cflags glib).

Example

module(load="mmgrok")
template(name="tmlp" type="string" string="%$!msg!test%\n")
action(type="mmgrok" patterndir="path/to/yourpatternsDir" match="%{WORD:test}" soure="msg" target="!msg")
action(type="omfile"  file="path/to/file" template="tmlp")

Descrption

patterndir: path to grok patterns dir, default: /usr/share/grok/patterns/base
match：the pattern used to match message
source: the source message/variable to be matched
target: the root path to write the captured json tree