hi,

I try  to DROP all messages, if they contains somewhere “/connection_status” or “/status”, but what ever I try, the filter won't fit on Nxlog, while it works in RegexTester

Example log:

Apr 25 11:15:11 nomad-cde cde_hpp-c7d794e5-6297-e29a-81d4-c284f52e8981: {"Hostname":"nomad-cde","ShortMessage":{"message":"Matched route \"status\".","context":{"route":"status","route_parameters":{"_route":"status","_controller":"App\\Controller\\Monitoring\\MonitoringController::getStatus"},"request_uri":"https://hpp.example.com/status","method":"GET"},"level":200,"level_name":"INFO","channel":"request","datetime":"2024-04-25T09:15:10.999734+00:00","extra":{}},"EventTime":"2024-04-25T11:15:11.000000+02:00","SeverityValue":6,"command":"/home/app/entrypoint.sh start php-fpm","container_id":"2baaa8302059bbcb881aac339807d429b1d91e1a117659e37cb4edfb7bb1eeca","container_name":"cde_hpp-c7d794e5-6297-e29a-81d4-c284f52e8981","image_id":"sha256:7ddb43de759bd8ef93975cf10b25289a4f8628587b6d31cbe3d16e8d39443572","image_name":"harbor.example.com/testing/hpp/test:433e16c7","tag":"production","EventReceivedTime":"2024-04-25T11:15:11.001689+02:00","SourceModuleName":"container","SourceName":"cde_hpp-c7d794e5-6297-e29a-81d4-c284f52e8981","SyslogFacility":6}

or

Apr 25 11:15:09 nomad-cde cde_iframes-3709bf3d-86a1-0264-fe9f-150ac2b14cdd: {"Hostname":"nomad-cde","ShortMessage":"172.16.0.40 - - [25/Apr/2024:09:15:09 +0000] \"GET /status HTTP/1.0\" 200 2 \"-\" \"-\" \"172.16.1.40\"","EventTime":"2024-04-25T11:15:09.479000+02:00","SeverityValue":6,"command":"/home/app/entrypoint.sh start php-fpm","container_id":"c8b7c9357b1bc195f6d88d09e4c329627bfe165debc09cfe4bbfd556fdab966c","container_name":"cde_iframes-3709bf3d-86a1-0264-fe9f-150ac2b14cdd","image_id":"sha256:be421273041ffa5d7b8be4963f91c0376d9829ba942b86341413c59105ae671c","image_name":"harbor.example.com/testing/iframes/test:3cb57629","tag":"production","EventReceivedTime":"2024-04-25T11:15:09.524068+02:00","SourceModuleName":"container","SourceName":"cde_iframes-3709bf3d-86a1-0264-fe9f-150ac2b14cdd","SyslogFacility":6}

or

Apr 25 11:15:09 nomad-cde cde_hpp-c7d794e5-6297-e29a-81d4-c284f52e8981: {"Hostname":"nomad-cde","ShortMessage":{"message":"Matched route \"connection_status\".","context":{"route":"connection_status","route_parameters":{"_route":"connection_status","_controller":"App\\Controller\\Monitoring\\MonitoringController::getStatusDB"},"request_uri":"https://web:4433/connection_status","method":"GET"},"level":200,"level_name":"INFO","channel":"request","datetime":"2024-04-25T09:15:09.603963+00:00","extra":{}},"EventTime":"2024-04-25T11:15:09.605000+02:00","SeverityValue":6,"command":"/home/app/entrypoint.sh start php-fpm","container_id":"2baaa8302059bbcb881aac339807d429b1d91e1a117659e37cb4edfb7bb1eeca","container_name":"cde_hpp-c7d794e5-6297-e29a-81d4-c284f52e8981","image_id":"sha256:7ddb43de759bd8ef93975cf10b25289a4f8628587b6d31cbe3d16e8d39443572","image_name":"harbor.example.com/testing/hpp/test:433e16c7","tag":"production","EventReceivedTime":"2024-04-25T11:15:09.634920+02:00","SourceModuleName":"container","SourceName":"cde_hpp-c7d794e5-6297-e29a-81d4-c284f52e8981","SyslogFacility":6}

I tried in the end the simplest one:

if $raw_event =~ /.*status.*/ drop();

 but it does not match. The config looks like this:

<Output syslog-container-server>
    Module om_udp
    Host ${user.logserver}
    Port 514
    <Exec>
        if $raw_event =~ /.*status.*/ drop();
        $Hostname = "nomad-cde";
        $message =~ s/-p[^\s]+/-pXXX/;
        delete($SourceModuleType);
        delete($MessageSourceAddress);
        delete($version);
        delete($created);
        $SourceName = $container_name;
        $SyslogFacility = $SeverityValue;
        to_json();
        to_syslog_bsd();
    </Exec>
</Output>

Can someone give me an hint, where I have to look ?