Hi I noticed that halog is not able to parse my logfile. I did not specify a custom log format. > cat access.log | halog -u -H -q #req err ttot tavg oktot okavg bavg btot src > It seems that the first field is not written to the log. (Notice the leading space) > cat access.log | head -1 91.1.2…

Don’t use -q when you troubleshoot this, because it will hide the summary which you need to know: 1 lines in, 0 lines out, 1 parsing errors halog expects additional garbage in front of the log by default. If your log looks like you this, you need to add -s -4: lukas@dev:~/haproxy/contrib/halog$ e…

Many thanks @lukastribus this resolved my issue. Indeed, the documentation is not clear enough for someone who doesn’t know how halog is parsing the logs. Now, that you explained, I understand that halog is ignoring the first 5 columns (and in my case 4), and is then parsing the rest of the line. …

Hi averyone. I could parse this sample line using -s -4 -H -u parameters as following: # echo '55.59.207.144:48882 [27/Feb/2023:20:20:49.934] kx_atics~ apigw/gw 0/0/3/35/38 200 284 - - ---- 3415/3415/4/4/0 0/0 "POST /api/v1/logs HTTP/1.1"' | ./halog -s -4 -H -u #req err ttot tavg oktot okavg bavg b…

Halog not able to parse logfile

Help!

lukastribus February 18, 2021, 9:54am 4

Yeah … halog has been written as a tool for the developers initially and it shows. Helptext output would have to be clarified.

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Halog not able to parse logfile

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