Mikrotik logs not showing correct log level

I am able to get logs from our MKT router if in BSD syslogs but only using a RAWudp with no log level. I am also able to receive logs when not using BSD I can receive logs all with a -1 level.


Circumstance one (BSD syslog to rawUDP)

MKT Log settings
mkd_settings_bsd_to_graylog_raw

Log results

Graylog input settings
rau_UDP_graylog_settings


Circumstance two (No BSD enabled to UDPsyslog)

MKT Log settings
mkt_settings_noBSD
(I have tried many facilitys though it don’t think it matters)

Log results

Graylog input settings


Has any one been able to get the correct log levels to show?
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Any help is much appreciated.

We are collecting simple (no BSD) logs. They are fed via separate input with two regex extractors. First extractor extracts topics part to new field topics, second extractor extracts log level from field topics to new field severity.

what happens if you select BSD and have the input set to syslog UDP?

@cawfehman
end up not getting messages.
Thanks much

@Karlis
would you mind terribly sharing your extractors? do you integrate with librenms?
Thank you much

well to me it looks like you should check BSD syslog and have it come in as rawUDP. The seems to have the most information in it, including the facility and level. The tricky part will be extracting it.

According to RFC3164 the data between the <> is the priority field which consists of the the facility and severity of the message, in your case <46> indicates security/informational (4=security 6=informational) at this point, you can simply extract the PRI field with something like

<%{BASE10NUM:message_priority}>

which would result in

message_priority
46

Then you can use this like any other field and search or alert against it. If you want to split message_priority into the seperate facility and level, you would be better served doing all of this in a multistaged pipeline.

Sure. They are perhaps not optimal but they works

## Extract topics from message
Extract beginning of the 'message' into 'topics'
Extractor type: Regular expression
Source field: message
regex_value: (.+?) .*
Store as field: topics

## Extract severity from topics
Extract using keywords from 'topics' into 'severity'
Extractor type: Regular expression
Source field: topics
regex_value: (info|warning|error|critical)
Store as field: severity

Second one depends on first, so arrange them accordingly.

OK i have a solution More or less.
MKT settings
remote with BSD disabled
port 2514

Graylog
individual Input Raw on port 2514

extractor1 one for each level desired
Regular expression
Source field=message
Regular expression=^.*(info)
Field matches regular expression=info
Store as field=LOGLEVEL

extractor2 one for each level desired
Replace with regular expression
Source field=LOGLEVEL
Regular expression=info
Replacement=6
Store as field=level

This results in logs showing correct log level in graylog as well as in librenms.
I think i can make these extractors more efficient using pipelines as @cawfehman but could use some help. As this is a working solution i will back burner the pipeline unless I receive some unsolicited help(plz). Thank you @Karlis and @cawfehman for your time and effort.

O and to share something in return. Here is the script i have written to pass the remote log config to all 70 or so Mikrotics in our environment.

#!/bin/bash

for HOST in $(cat mkt-ip-list.txt) ; do sshpass -f ‘pass.txt’ ssh -o “StrictHostKeyChecking=no” admin@$HOST ‘/system logging action add name=graylog remote=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx remote-port=2514 target=remote;/system logging add action=graylog topics=critical;/system logging add action=graylog topics=error;/system logging add action=graylog topics=warning;/system logging add action=graylog topics=info’ ; done

It is all one line and the mkt-ip-list.txt is a txt file with each of our mikrotik IPs on its own line

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Glad to hear you got it working, that’s the most important part. Now you can tweak it, if necessary or needed. Good on you for giving back with the script as well. That’s good internet karma.

As for the pipeline, give it a go and ask questions if you get stuck… post as much of it as you feel comfortable with, and it always helps for those helping you to see a sample log message.

Good luck!

You bash script is nice, but you can also use ansible for it:


we are currently pre Ansible integration but headed that way.

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