12 Aug 2015 We don't use the json module because there are some issues with nxlog json and logstash. This is an example of the configuration we use:1 Feb 2016 We will use Logstash for parsing the data received from NxLog, See 5-minutes Logstash tutorial. We also need some data manipulation and for that we've configured the filter section to use the json filter for the events that 27 Jul 2015 example for nxlog config for logstash. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 21 Apr 2016 Using NxLog to send Windows Event Logs to Logstash See the nxlog reference manual about the. ## configuration . This is a sample configuration file. See the nxlog reference manual about the. ## configuration options. It should be installed locally and is also available. NXLog can be configured to act as a log collector, forwarding logs to Logstash in JSON format. Set up a configuration on the Logstash server to process incoming event data from NXLog. The json codec in Logstash sometimes fails to properly parse JSON—it will concatenate more than one JSON record into one event. I would suggest trying the tcp input, forget about defining the codec in your input, it's generally a bad idea I have found: input { tcp { type 23 Apr 2015 There are many tutorials and configurations scattered around on the web, some come with By admElasticsearch, Kibana, ELK, log monitoring. 30 Nov 2015 I have followed many of the examples out there, but can't get it going. Module xm_syslog Module xm_json logstash windows nxlog config example. Logstash can gather logs from different OS, so I installed nxlog on each Windows machine in my codec => json.