gelf input throws Gelfd::DecodeError then stops accepting new GELF messages
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Chris May 8, 2013 at 8:59 PM
I think this might also be fixed the with the patch posted to
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Created May 6, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Updated February 14, 2015 at 6:50 AM
Seeing these happen regularly (about once per day) on our logstash instance:
After this is logged, no new messages are accepted via the GELF input, and logstash reports these each time a new message is received:
The bandaid fix is to detect these errors and restart logstash.