Graylog Sidecar and static windows server .log files

[drsockmonkee (Andrew Davis)]

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If I had not asked this, I never would have found this answer.

So, I started over. Downloaded the OVA device, and ran it. Before, I had tried to setup the stack in a stand alone VM (very much a newbie here)
http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.2/pages/installation/virtual_machine_appliances.html#virtual-machine-appliances

Then, I found this thread which helped a lot.

IIS logs into graylog

Finally got it working! Thanks to all that helped me out. define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog Moduledir %ROOT%\modules CacheDir %ROOT%\data Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid SpoolDir %ROOT%\data LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log <Extension gelf> Module xm_gelf </Extension> <Extension fileop> Module xm_fileop </Extension> <Extension json> Module xm_json </Extension> Create the parse rule for IIS logs. You can copy these from the header of the IIS log file. <Extension w3c> M…

Thanks for the information people share here.

Andy