


This one searches the string in message either linearly (using CPU instructions) or using Rabin-Karb (Worst time complexity O((n-m)*m)), depending on the length of the search pattern.Īs you noticed CPU usage very much depends on event throughput. The final event is then JSON encoded when publishing to redis.įrom experience most CPU is consumed due to the JSON encoding + garbage collection of published events.
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This does not come for free and produces some garbage which needs to be cleaned.įilebeat does not just send the plain contents as is, but generates structures events with read timestamps + it adds additional meta-data per event.
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|BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Match,_Content=simple_log_with_level-4 |20000000| 99.5 ns/op|įilebeat copies the content into temporary buffers (so to deal with potential file truncation on rotation strategies), plus multiline has to combine existing buffered lines. |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Regex,_Content=simple_log_with_level-4 | 1000000| 1487 ns/op| |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Match,_Content=simple_log2-4 | 5000000| 277 ns/op| |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Regex,_Content=simple_log2-4 | 500000| 2732 ns/op| |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Match,_Content=simple_log-4 |20000000| 110 ns/op| |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Regex,_Content=simple_log-4 | 1000000| 1879 ns/op| |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Match,_Content=mixed-4 |10000000| 117 ns/op| These benchmark results do match this pattern: |BenchmarkPatterns/Name=startsWithDate2,_Matcher=Regex,_Content=mixed-4 | 1000000| 2021 ns/op| Multiline.pattern: '^] should fit your case and it will be optimized to a simple hand-coded prefix check. Here's our filebeat.yml for the default test: - input_type: log We think the CPU usage of filebeat is normal, or did we overlook a magic switch to lower it significantly?

One of our customers complains, that filebeat needs more resources than the process that writes the logs

We're using filebeat to forward logs to a redis server, then they're processed with logstash and indexed by elasticsearch
