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| include: [/var/log/nginx/access.log] | ||
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| - type: regex_parser | ||
| regex: '^(?P<client_address>\S+) \S+ \S+ \[(?P<time_local>[^\]]+)\] "(?P<method>[A-Z]+) (?P<path>[^ ?"]+)[^ "]* HTTP/[0-9.]+" (?P<status>\d{3}) (?P<body_bytes>\d+) "[^"]*" "(?P<user_agent>[^"]*)"$' |
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🟡 Empty Apache responses lose parsed fields
When Apache combined logs contain zero-byte responses, regex_parser rejects their - byte count. Those records reach Maple without parsed timestamps, severity, or HTTP fields.
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Apache's standard combined format writes - for a zero-byte response. The parser accepts only digits for body_bytes, so a 304 or HEAD response with no body fails the whole parse. The receiver then forwards the raw line because its regex operator defaults to on_error: send. The guide explicitly says one parser handles nginx and Apache combined logs at combined format.
Example: An Apache access log ending in "GET /asset HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "curl/8" has no numeric byte count. The parser forwards it raw rather than assigning status 304 and its timestamp.
Recommended fix: Allow - as well as digits in the byte-count capture, and convert - to zero or omit the size attribute before the OTTL Int() conversion. Cover both Apache's - and nginx's numeric 0.
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Fixed: the byte-count group now accepts -, and the transform processor deletes http.response.body.size when it is - before the Int() conversion. Re-ran with a 304 - line: status 304, INFO, no body size.
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| info: [2xx, 3xx] |
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🟡 WebSocket upgrades lack INFO severity
For an HTTP 101 upgrade, severity.mapping has no 1xx entry. The log lacks INFO severity, so Maple's INFO filter omits it.
| info: [2xx, 3xx] | |
| info: [1xx, 2xx, 3xx] |
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Fixed, but not with 1xx: the stanza severity placeholders only cover 2xx to 5xx, and a 101 line still came out unmapped with that suggestion. Info now uses a numeric range (min: 100, max: 399); re-ran and a 101 line is INFO.
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- Line 59: Update the endpoint configuration in the `nginx-collector.yaml`
example so EU organizations can export successfully: make the endpoint
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve access-log records across Collector restarts.
The filelog receiver defaults to start_at: end and keeps offsets only in memory. If Nginx writes records while the Collector is stopped, the restarted Collector skips those records. A pre-existing sample file is also skipped until new lines arrive. Set start_at: beginning and configure persistent filelog offset storage so the receiver can catch up without rereading the whole file on each restart. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the filelog receiver configuration containing the Nginx access-log
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the ingest endpoint match the Maple organization’s region.
If a reader uses an EU organization’s ingest key, https://ingest.maple.dev rejects the export. Allow the endpoint to be configured, or tell readers to use https://ingest.eu.maple.dev for EU organizations. (maple.dev)
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Update the endpoint configuration in the `nginx-collector.yaml` example so EU
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EU users to use `https://ingest.eu.maple.dev`, while retaining the default
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Covers log formats (syslog, nginx combined, JSON, logfmt, multiline), regex and grok, Linux command-line parsing, and Collector filelog operators plus OTTL, with a tested nginx access log config that exports to Maple.
…log parsing guide Apache writes - for a zero-byte response, which failed the whole regex. 101 upgrades had no severity because the 2xx-5xx placeholders do not cover 1xx; use a numeric range instead.
Rebuild the page on the guide standard: a short title, six sections with subsections, a field-colored before/after of one nginx line whose colors carry through the regex, the Collector config and the debug output, tabs for the Linux tools and for each log format, and the receiver renamed to file_log. Every Collector fragment is a raw-imported file that was run on otelcol-contrib 0.163.1. Adds shell and Collector debug output to the guide highlighter.
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- Line 74: Update the guide index entry’s read value to match the “10 min read”
value shown by the log-parsing guide page, keeping both locations consistent.
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- Around line 212-217: Update the logfmt and multiline result blocks to match
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| title: "Log parsing: from raw lines to structured fields", | ||
| description: "Parse syslog, nginx, JSON and multiline logs with regex, grok and Linux commands, then in the OpenTelemetry Collector.", | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use the same reading time as the guide page.
The index card shows 14 min. The page header in apps/landing/src/pages/guides/log-parsing.astro (Line 368) shows 10 min read. Use one value in both places.
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Update the guide index entry’s read value to match the “10 min read” value shown
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| result: `Timestamp: 2026-10-19 14:02:11 +0000 UTC | ||
| SeverityText: warn | ||
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| -> key: Str(user:42) | ||
| -> duration_ms: Str(18)`, |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the logfmt and multiline records consistent with the JSON record.
The JSON tab result (Lines 197-204) keeps ts and level in the attributes after the inline timestamp and severity blocks parse them. The nginx config shows the same behavior. It needs an explicit remove for time_local, and status is still present after severity parsing.
The logfmt result omits the time, level and Body lines. logfmt.yaml has no remove or move operator, so the Collector keeps time and level in the attributes and keeps the raw line in the body. The multiline result (Lines 228-236) has the same problem: time, level and Body are missing.
The guide says each tab shows "the record the Collector printed for it". With the current text, readers can think the inline blocks remove the source field in some parsers but not in others.
Run the debug exporter again for these two tabs and paste the full output. If you want to keep the output short, add a note that it is trimmed.
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212 - 217:
Update the logfmt and multiline result blocks to match the actual full
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Captured from the guide's own nginx Collector config, run against an access log in the guide's format.
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# Conflicts: # apps/landing/src/lib/guide-highlight.ts # apps/landing/src/pages/guides/index.astro
…or configs Format tabs with a complete config.yaml each, verified on otelcol-contrib 0.164.0; a step-by-step section for your own format; shell parsing moved to the end; copy buttons on every code block.
Maple review🟡 Confidence 6/10 · needs attention. Held at 6 because a correctness warning is open. Adds the
Findings🟠 Warning · F3 · Guide says the query string is not kept, but the record's
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Guide says the query string is not kept, but the record's Body holds the raw line
F3 · Warning · correctness
The figcaption says the query string, protocol and referrer are matched but not kept, and the mistakes list says a query string never reaches an attribute. The nginx config never changes Body, so the raw line survives (see the page's own Body: Str(...) at line 243) and ?expand=items travels to Maple as the message.
Say the fields are dropped from the attributes but stay in the record's body, or add a `set(log.body, ...)`/`move` that replaces the raw line.
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In `apps/landing/src/pages/guides/log-parsing.astro:462`: Guide says the query string is not kept, but the record's `Body` holds the raw line.
The figcaption says the query string, protocol and referrer are matched but not kept, and the mistakes list says a query string never reaches an attribute. The nginx config never changes `Body`, so the raw line survives (see the page's own `Body: Str(...)` at line 243) and `?expand=items` travels to Maple as the message.
Suggested fix: Say the fields are dropped from the attributes but stay in the record's body, or add a `set(log.body, ...)`/`move` that replaces the raw line.
Verify the problem exists at that location before changing it, and keep the fix to those lines.
Guide at
/guides/log-parsing: "Log parsing, explained".What it covers (six H2s)
LanguageTabs(group="maple-guide-log-format") for nginx/Apache, JSON, logfmt, Multiline and Syslog. Each tab has a sample line, a completeconfig.yamland the parsed record from a real rundebug.yamlplus a Docker command, the output, the background run, and an "if nothing arrives" calloutEvery code block has a copy button (
bindCopyButtons). Output blocks don't.Search intent: mostly people who want an explanation (what log parsing is, which technique fits which format), followed by a how-to.
Configs (in
apps/landing/src/pages/guides/_log-parsing/)file_logandotlp_http.guide-highlight.ts: main's version plus single-quoted shell strings and anotel-debuglanguage. Only additions.Verification
otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.164.0(Docker) against sample files, with thedebugexporter. The parsed records shown on the page are the real output, with attributes reordered to match the line.--group-add 4was checked on a Linux volume: a file owned by group 4 with mode 640 fails without it and is read with it.ubuntu:24.04.bun run --cwd apps/landing buildpasses.Maple docs linked:
/docs/explore/logs,/docs/infrastructure/hosts,/docs/dashboards/build-dashboards,/docs/instrumentation.Sources: opentelemetry-collector-contrib (file_log receiver, operators, transform processor), the Docker Hub image, the OpenTelemetry HTTP semantic conventions, nginx
log_format, RFC 5424 and the jq manual.