Issues

"Error: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8" file input crash

Unexpected / invalid UTF8 character in log input file causes logstash halt / infinite loop

Problem with character encoding in json_lines

Error: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 {:level=>:error}

InvalidByteSequenceError: ""\xEF""

Exception in thread "LogStash::Runner" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (InvalidByteSequenceError) ""\xA7"" on ASCII-8BIT

Failed to flush outgoing items, imap => elasticsearch

logstash crashes with UTF-8 issue

Illegal/malformed utf-8 exception with input file encoded as utf-8

eventlog input: UndefinedConversionError from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

Failing to decode base64 string

Logstash crashing on converting from ASCII to UTF-8

Access to German Windows EventLog fails

Exception in thread "LogStash::Runner" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (Com patibilityError) incompatible character encodings: GBK and UTF-8

8bit character kill XMPP input

Exception in LogStash::Filters::CSV whith illegal utf-8 event, no explicit codec and quote delimiter

I got a problem when I collect eventlog message from win8 use nxlog

logstash indexer gets stuck frequently attempting to flush outgoing to elastisearch

The Big UTF-8 Ticket

JSON::GeneratorError: source sequence is illegal/malformed utf-8

Wrong Encoding ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for input eventlog for German Umlauts

logstash indexer hangs and eventually goes OOM on "malformed utf-8" error

File input needs to be sanitized - kills process

elasticsearch can't index utf-8 encoded log messages with norwegian characters (Æ Ø Å)

Exception: source sequence is illegal/malformed utf-8

Grok Regexp Threw Exception on syslog file input

Source sequence is illegal/malformed utf-8

UndefinedConversionError with EventLog and GELF

UTF-8 encoding with file input and redis output

drupal_dblog filter cannot unserialize non-UTF-8 encoded strings

Trouble sending GELF event - JSON::GeneratorError: source sequence is illegal/malformed utf-8

Redis outputfails with UTF-8

Potential encoding problem with either JSON or Redis output