Logstash Grok filter reading wrong value - exception

Question

I am currently trying to setup some data collections for our app using the full elk stack (Beats - Logstash - ElasticSearch-Kibana). So far everything is working as it should but I have a requirement to capture statistics on the exceptions thrown by the applications (e.g. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException)
I am not really interested in the stack trace itself so I went ahead and added a separate grok filter just for the exception.
Example of Message:
2016-11-15 05:19:28,801 ERROR [App-Initialisation-Thread] appengine.java:520 Failed to initialize external authenticator myapp Support Access || appuser#vm23-13:/mnt/data/install/assembly app-1.4.12#cad85b224cce11eb5defa126030f21fa867b0dad
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not check if provided root is a directory
at com.myapp.io.AbstractRootPrefixedFileSystem.checkAndGetRoot(AbstractRootPrefixedFileSystem.java:67)
at com.myapp.io.AbstractRootPrefixedFileSystem.<init>(AbstractRootPrefixedFileSystem.java:30)
at com.myapp.io.s3.S3FileSystem.<init>(S3FileSystem.java:32)
at com.myapp.io.s3.S3FileSystemDriver.loadFileSystem(S3FileSystemDriver.java:60)
at com.myapp.io.FileSystems.getFileSystem(FileSystems.java:55)
at com.myapp.authentication.ldap.S3LdapConfigProvider.initializeCloudFS(S3LdapConfigProvider.java:77)
at com.myapp.authentication.ldap.S3LdapConfigProvider.loadS3Config(S3LdapConfigProvider.java:51)
at com.myapp.authentication.ldap.S3LdapConfigProvider.getLdapConfig(S3LdapConfigProvider.java:42)
at com.myapp.authentication.ldap.DelegatingLdapConfigProvider.getLdapConfig(DelegatingLdapConfigProvider.java:45)
at com.myapp.authentication.ldap.LdapExternalAuthenticatorFactory.create(LdapExternalAuthenticatorFactory.java:28)
at com.myapp.authentication.ldap.LdapExternalAuthenticatorFactory.create(LdapExternalAuthenticatorFactory.java:10)
at com.myapp.frob.appengine.getExternalAuthenticators(appengine.java:516)
at com.myapp.frob.appengine.startUp(appengine.java:871)
at com.myapp.frob.appengine.startUp(appengine.java:754)
at com.myapp.jsp.KewServeInitContextListener$1.run(QServerInitContextListener.java:104)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: fh-ldap-config/
at com.upplication.s3fs.util.S3Utils.getS3ObjectSummary(S3Utils.java:55)
at com.upplication.s3fs.util.S3Utils.getS3FileAttributes(S3Utils.java:64)
at com.upplication.s3fs.S3FileSystemProvider.readAttributes(S3FileSystemProvider.java:463)
at com.myapp.io.AbstractRootPrefixedFileSystem.checkAndGetRoot(AbstractRootPrefixedFileSystem.java:61)
Example of grok statement:
grok {
patterns_dir => ["./patterns"]
match => ["message", "%{GREEDYDATA}\n%{JAVAFILE:exception}"]
}
Testing on the grok debugger shows correct results:
{
"GREEDYDATA": [
[
"2016-11-15 05:19:28,801 ERROR [App-Initialisation-Thread] appengine.java:520 Failed to initialize external authenticator myapp Support Access || appuser#vm23-13:/mnt/data/install/assembly app-1.4.12#cad85b224cce11eb5defa126030f21fa867b0dad"
]
],
"exception": [
[
"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException"
]
]
}
Problem
When I add the configuration to logstash it captures the Caused string instead of the exception name, even though the "Caused" string is after another new line character. However it works perfectly for other exception messages such as :
016-11-15 06:17:49,691 WARN [SCReplicationWorkerThread-2] ClientJob.java:207 50345 Error communicating to server `199.181.131.249':`80'. Waiting `10' seconds before retrying... If you see this message rarely, the sc will have recovered gracefully. || appuser#vm55-12:/mnt/deployment/install/app app-3.1.23#cad85b224cce11eb5defa126030f21fa867b0dad
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(SocketInputStream.java:116)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:170)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:141)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:223)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readBoolean(DataInputStream.java:242)
at com.myapp.replication.client.ClientJob.passCheckRevision(ClientJob.java:279)
at com.myapp.replication.client.ClientJob.execute(ClientJob.java:167)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:534)
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Did you setting the mutiline in the input or filebeat input ,
like this to show the pattern start with ISO8601
I think maybe you mutiline not fetch the whole line
input {
beats {
port => 5044
codec => multiline {
pattern => "^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}[\.,][0-9]{3,7} "
negate => true
what => "previous"
}
}
}