Hi I am trying to post events from my logs files to gelf_tcp (Graylog). My log records are in flat json format. I can push logs to gelf, however with few issues; I appreciate if you can help.

Issue 1: My log record has a field called "level". When the record is sent to Graylog, level does not match the one that I have in log file. I do parse_json() first and also I tried to explicitly set the value of level based on NXLog documentation https://nxlog.co/documentation/nxlog-user-guide/xm_gelf.html There is also something wrong with documentation. It says gelf understand field "SeverityLevel" but in the example in the same page it is using "SyslogSeverityLevel". I tried to explicitly set both fields with $level field but nothing changes in graylog.

Issue 2: I have timestamp filed in my log record which is ISO 8601 format. I could not find an easy way to parse it. the parsedata() function does not help there. I end up extracting date and time part from my field and then send it to parsedate($1 + " " + $2). If you know a better way, please let me know.

Thanks

Kev