How to source plaint text file to Greylog (upload directly to greylog server)

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1. Describe your incident:
I want to upload plain text file to Greylog, is there any way i can perform this without specifying server and other details

2. Describe your environment:

  • OS Information: Linux

  • Package Version: 4.2

  • Service logs, configurations, and environment variables: log files

3. What steps have you already taken to try and solve the problem?

I tried to use PlainTextRAW/TCP, but not able to upload text files to Greylog

4. How can the community help?
Need information on uploading text file directly to greylog server

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What is it you are trying to accomplish?
What problem do you encounter with plaintext raw?

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Hi Patrick,

I am working Graylog POC, need to check some logs which were provided from other source as a text file. I want to know the procedure to upload this text file and anylize logs.

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I just netcat them to the appropriate input, which I guess is what you are doing too. In what way exactly is it failing?

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Or you can use an agent like Filebeat or NXLog to collect them and ship them to Graylog via either beats or GELF inputs.

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