MySQL Logs

deb (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-oss-7.8.1-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i filebeat-oss-7.8.1-amd64.deb

rpm (CentOS/RHEL/Fedora)

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-oss-7.8.1-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi filebeat-oss-7.8.1-x86_64.rpm

macOS

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-oss-7.8.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf filebeat-oss-7.8.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

Windows

• Download the filebeat Windows zip file from the official downloads page.
• Extract the contents of the zip file into C:\Program Files.
• Rename the filebeat-<version>-windows directory to filebeat.
• Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
• Run the following commands to install filebeat as a Windows service:

cd 'C:\Program Files\filebeat'
.\install-service-filebeat.ps1

There are several built in filebeat modules you can use. To enable the mysql module run.

deb/rpm

filebeat modules list
filebeat modules enable mysql

Windows

.\Filebeat modules enable mysql

The default configured paths for MySQL logs are as follows.

/var/log/mysql/mysql.log

/var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log

c:\programdata\MySQL\MySQL Server*\error.log*

c:\programdata\MySQL\MySQL Server*\mysql-slow.log*

Additional module configuration can be done using the per module config files located in the modules.d folder, most commonly this would be to read logs from a non-default location

deb/rpm /etc/filebeat/modules.d/
mac/win <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>/modules.d/

deb/rpm /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
Windows Open C:\Program Files\Filebeat\filebeat.yml

We'll be shipping to Logstash so that we have the option to run filters before the data is indexed.
Comment out the elasticsearch output block.

## Comment out elasticsearch output
#output.elasticsearch:
#  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

Uncomment and change the logstash output to match below.

output.logstash:
    hosts: ["your-logstash-host:your-ssl-port"]
    loadbalance: true
    ssl.enabled: true

Let's check the configuration file is syntactically correct by running filebeat directly inside the terminal. If the file is invalid, filebeat will print an error loading config file error message with details on how to correct the problem.

deb/rpm

sudo filebeat -e -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml

macOS

cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml

Windows

cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
.\filebeat.exe -e -c filebeat.yml

All Logit stacks come pre-configured with popular Logstash filters. We would recommend that you add MySQL specific filters if you don't already have them, to ensure enhanced dashboards and modules work correctly.

Edit your Logstash filters by choosing Stack > Settings > Logstash Filters

if [fileset][module] == "mysql" {
  if [fileset][name] == "error" {
    grok {
      match => { "message" => ["%{LOCALDATETIME:[mysql][error][timestamp]} (\[%{DATA:[mysql][error][level]}\] )?%{GREEDYDATA:[mysql][error][message]}",
        "%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:[mysql][error][timestamp]} %{NUMBER:[mysql][error][thread_id]} \[%{DATA:[mysql][error][level]}\] %{GREEDYDATA:[mysql][error][message1]}",
        "%{GREEDYDATA:[mysql][error][message2]}"] }
      pattern_definitions => {
        "LOCALDATETIME" => "[0-9]+ %{TIME}"
      }
      remove_field => "message"
    }
    mutate {
      rename => { "[mysql][error][message1]" => "[mysql][error][message]" }
    }
    mutate {
      rename => { "[mysql][error][message2]" => "[mysql][error][message]" }
    }
    date {
      match => [ "[mysql][error][timestamp]", "ISO8601", "YYMMdd H:m:s" ]
      remove_field => "[mysql][error][time]"
    }
  }
  else if [fileset][name] == "slowlog" {
    grok {
      match => { "message" => ["^# User@Host: %{USER:[mysql][slowlog][user]}(\[[^\]]+\])? @ %{HOSTNAME:[mysql][slowlog][host]} \[(IP:[mysql][slowlog][ip])?\](\s*Id:\s* %{NUMBER:[mysql][slowlog][id]})?\n# Query_time: %{NUMBER:[mysql][slowlog][query_time][sec]}\s* Lock_time: %{NUMBER:[mysql][slowlog][lock_time][sec]}\s* Rows_sent: %{NUMBER:[mysql][slowlog][rows_sent]}\s* Rows_examined: %{NUMBER:[mysql][slowlog][rows_examined]}\n(SET timestamp=%{NUMBER:[mysql][slowlog][timestamp]};\n)?%{GREEDYMULTILINE:[mysql][slowlog][query]}"] }
      pattern_definitions => {
        "GREEDYMULTILINE" => "(.|\n)*"
      }
      remove_field => "message"
    }
    date {
      match => [ "[mysql][slowlog][timestamp]", "UNIX" ]
    }
    mutate {
      gsub => ["[mysql][slowlog][query]", "\n# Time: [0-9]+ [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9](\\.[0-9]+)?$", ""]
    }
  }
}

Let's check the configuration file is syntactically correct.

Run from the extracted archive dir:

filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml

Ok, time to start ingesting data!

deb/rpm

sudo systemctl enable filebeat
sudo systemctl start filebeat

Windows

Start-Service filebeat

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