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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon osiegmar

GZIP Compression with GelfUdpAppender

Open Stratehm opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Problem: We have an application that sends logs to a Logstash instance but all special characters are badly handled. It seems that Logstash has a problem when using ZLIB compression but works well with GZIP compression (tested and approved). (https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-gelf/issues/54)

Solution We would like to be able to use GZIP compression instead of ZLIB since this compression method is also permitted in the GELF specs: https://docs.graylog.org/docs/gelf#gelf

A solution may be to add a <compressionMethod>GZIP/ZLIB</compressionMethod> configuration to the GelfUdpAppender and taken into account only if <useCompression> is true.

Alternative solution Remove <useCompression> configuration (breaking change) and replace it with <compressionMethod>None/GZIP/ZLIB</compressionMethod>

Stratehm avatar Nov 23 '21 10:11 Stratehm

Thanks for your contribution. The functionality will be part of the next non-patch release.

osiegmar avatar Jan 04 '22 19:01 osiegmar