Data flowing via Raw/Plaintext TCP but everything appears encoded

New user to Graylog/filebeat.

Data flowing in via Raw/Plaintext TCP appears garbled/encrypted/encoded. Most settings are still default. Using this input defn:

  • bind_address: 0.0.0.0
  • charset_name:
  • max_message_size: 2097152
  • number_worker_threads: 2
  • override_source:
  • port: 5044
  • recv_buffer_size: 1048576
  • tcp_keepalive: false
  • tls_cert_file:
  • tls_client_auth: disabled
  • tls_client_auth_cert_file:
  • tls_enable: false
  • tls_key_file:
  • tls_key_password: ********
  • use_null_delimiter: true

What am I missing?

Host#1 (Ubuntu 22), running filebeat to send syslogs/mysql/etc logs to Host#2 (graylog).
Almost all configs are defaults

Host#2 (Ubuntu 20), running a self installed instance w/ the following components:

  • ii elasticsearch 7.17.20 amd64 Distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud
  • ii graylog-5.0-repository 1-2 all Package to install Graylog 5.0 GPG key and repository
  • ii graylog-server 5.0.13-1 amd64 Graylog server
  • ii mongodb-database-tools 100.9.4 amd64 mongodb-database-tools package provides tools for working with the MongoDB server:
  • ii mongodb-mongosh 2.2.4 amd64 MongoDB Shell CLI REPL Package
  • ii mongodb-org 6.0.14 amd64 MongoDB open source document-oriented database system (metapackage)
  • ii mongodb-org-database 6.0.14 amd64 MongoDB open source document-oriented database system (metapackage)
  • ii mongodb-org-database-tools-extra 6.0.14 amd64 Extra MongoDB database tools
  • ii mongodb-org-mongos 6.0.14 amd64 MongoDB sharded cluster query router
  • ii mongodb-org-server 6.0.14 amd64 MongoDB database server
  • ii mongodb-org-shell 6.0.14 amd64 MongoDB shell client
  • ii mongodb-org-tools 6.0.14 amd64 MongoDB tools

Are you using a raw input or the beats input? filebeat should be going to the beats input.

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