Log Architecture & Structural Overview

The Project Calico CNI Network Policy Audit Log Parser is an essential telemetry stream within the Containers & Kubernetes ecosystem. Parse Project Calico Kubernetes CNI flow logs to audit network policy drops and inter-pod communications.

This schema defines a structure of 12 extracted attributes, including 2 numeric metrics and 10 string dimensions. In production observability architectures, these tokens provide high-cardinality indexing keys for telemetry pipelines before shipping to storage backends such as ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3, or Datadog.

Raw Telemetry Ingestion Profile

A typical raw event line for calico-cni-traffic averages 171 bytes across 12 tokens. Modern collectors such as Fluent Bit and Vector require zero-backtracking regular expressions to avoid CPU spikes during traffic surges.

Extracted Field Schema & Data Types

The transpiled Grok pattern extracts the following schema fields from each raw event line. Data collectors cast these values according to the typed mappings below.

Field Name	Inferred Type	Description & Collector Semantics
timestamp	string	ISO-8601 timestamp.
hostname	string	Kubernetes node hostname.
cni	string	Calico logging tag.
action	string	Network policy verdict (ALLOW or DROP).
in_iface	string	Ingress network interface.
out_iface	string	Egress network interface.
mac	string	Hardware MAC address.
src_ip	string	Source pod IP.
dst_ip	string	Destination IP.
proto	string	Transport protocol.
src_port	integer	Source port.
dst_port	integer	Destination port.

Common Regex Traps & Production Edge Cases

Engineers frequently encounter ingestion failures or pipeline drops due to subtle variations in real-world event logs. Watch out for these verified pitfalls:

1Attempts to reach 169.254.169.254 (cloud instance metadata) that get dropped indicate pods attempting credential exfiltration.

2ICMP packets omit SPT and DPT fields.

Production Collector Setup & Configurations

Pre-configured parser definitions ready to be dropped into your infrastructure repository.

Fluent Bit (parsers.conf)

Format: regex

# ==============================================================================
# Fluent Bit Parser Configuration (parsers.conf)
# ==============================================================================
[PARSER]
    Name        logpipeline_parser
    Format      regex
    Regex       ^(?<timestamp>(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b)-(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))-(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))[T ](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?)))?(?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9])))))?) (?<hostname>\S+) (?<cni>\S+): \[(?<action>\b\w+\b)\] IN=(?<in_iface>\S+) OUT=(?<out_iface>\S+) MAC=(?<mac>\S+) SRC=(?<src_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) DST=(?<dst_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) PROTO=(?<proto>\b\w+\b) SPT=(?<src_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) DPT=(?<dst_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$
    Time_Key    timestamp
    Time_Format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z
    Types       src_port:integer dst_port:integer

# ==============================================================================
# Fluent Bit Pipeline Filter (fluent-bit.conf)
# ==============================================================================
[FILTER]
    Name         parser
    Match        *
    Key_Name     log
    Parser       logpipeline_parser
    Reserve_Data On

Vector.dev (Remap VRL)

parse_regex!

# ==============================================================================
# Vector.dev Remap Language (VRL) Transform
# Use inside a 'remap' transform in vector.yaml
# ==============================================================================
.parsed, err = parse_regex(.message, r'^(?<timestamp>(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b)-(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))-(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))[T ](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?)))?(?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9])))))?) (?<hostname>\S+) (?<cni>\S+): \[(?<action>\b\w+\b)\] IN=(?<in_iface>\S+) OUT=(?<out_iface>\S+) MAC=(?<mac>\S+) SRC=(?<src_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) DST=(?<dst_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) PROTO=(?<proto>\b\w+\b) SPT=(?<src_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) DPT=(?<dst_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$')

if err == null {
    . = merge(., .parsed)
    del(.parsed)

    # Type coercions
    .src_port = to_int!(.src_port)
    .dst_port = to_int!(.dst_port)

} else {
    log("LogPipeline parsing warning: " + err, level: "warn")
}

# ==============================================================================
# vector.yaml Pipeline Component
# ==============================================================================
transforms:
  parse_logs:
    type: remap
    inputs: ["source_logs"]
    source: |
      .parsed, err = parse_regex(.message, r'^(?<timestamp>(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b)-(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))-(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))[T ](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?)))?(?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9])))))?) (?<hostname>\S+) (?<cni>\S+): \[(?<action>\b\w+\b)\] IN=(?<in_iface>\S+) OUT=(?<out_iface>\S+) MAC=(?<mac>\S+) SRC=(?<src_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) DST=(?<dst_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) PROTO=(?<proto>\b\w+\b) SPT=(?<src_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) DPT=(?<dst_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$')
      if err == null {
        . = merge(., .parsed)
        del(.parsed)
      }

Datadog Log Pipeline Grok Parser

match_rules

# ==============================================================================
# Datadog Log Processing Pipeline Grok Parser
# Navigate to: Logs -> Configuration -> Pipelines -> Add Processor -> Grok Parser
# ==============================================================================

# Match Rule:
rule %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp} %{NOTSPACE:hostname} %{NOTSPACE:cni}: \[%{WORD:action}\] IN=%{NOTSPACE:in_iface} OUT=%{NOTSPACE:out_iface} MAC=%{NOTSPACE:mac} SRC=%{IP:src_ip} DST=%{IP:dst_ip} PROTO=%{WORD:proto} SPT=%{INT:src_port} DPT=%{INT:dst_port}

# Complete Datadog Pipeline Processor JSON:
{
  "type": "grok-parser",
  "name": "LogPipeline Grok Parser",
  "is_enabled": true,
  "source": "message",
  "samples": [],
  "grok": {
    "match_rules": "rule %{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp} %{NOTSPACE:hostname} %{NOTSPACE:cni}: \\[%{WORD:action}\\] IN=%{NOTSPACE:in_iface} OUT=%{NOTSPACE:out_iface} MAC=%{NOTSPACE:mac} SRC=%{IP:src_ip} DST=%{IP:dst_ip} PROTO=%{WORD:proto} SPT=%{INT:src_port} DPT=%{INT:dst_port}",
    "support_rules": ""
  }
}

# Target Fields Created:
# timestamp (string), hostname (string), cni (string), action (string), in_iface (string), out_iface (string), mac (string), src_ip (string), dst_ip (string), proto (string), src_port (integer), dst_port (integer)

OpenTelemetry Collector (transform processor)

regex_parser

# ==============================================================================
# OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration (otel-collector-config.yaml)
# Option 1: Filelog Receiver with regex_parser Operator
# ==============================================================================
receivers:
  filelog:
    include: [ /var/log/**/*.log ]
    start_at: beginning
    operators:
      - type: regex_parser
        id: logpipeline_regex_parser
        regex: '^(?<timestamp>(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b)-(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))-(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))[T ](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?)))?(?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9])))))?) (?<hostname>\S+) (?<cni>\S+): \[(?<action>\b\w+\b)\] IN=(?<in_iface>\S+) OUT=(?<out_iface>\S+) MAC=(?<mac>\S+) SRC=(?<src_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) DST=(?<dst_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) PROTO=(?<proto>\b\w+\b) SPT=(?<src_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) DPT=(?<dst_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$'
        timestamp:
          parse_from: attributes.timestamp
          layout: '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z'

# ==============================================================================
# Option 2: Transform Processor (OTel Transformation Language - OTTL)
# ==============================================================================
processors:
  transform:
    error_mode: ignore
    log_statements:
      - context: log
        statements:
          - merge_maps(attributes, extract_patterns(body, "^(?<timestamp>(?:\\b[0-9]{4}\\b)-(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2]))-(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))[T ](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?)))?(?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9])))))?) (?<hostname>\\S+) (?<cni>\\S+): \\[(?<action>\\b\\w+\\b)\\] IN=(?<in_iface>\\S+) OUT=(?<out_iface>\\S+) MAC=(?<mac>\\S+) SRC=(?<src_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) DST=(?<dst_ip>(?:(?:(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|:(?:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]+|::(?:ffff(?::0{1,4})?:)?(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1,4}:(?:(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|(?:2[0-4]|1?[0-9])?[0-9])))|(?:(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)))) PROTO=(?<proto>\\b\\w+\\b) SPT=(?<src_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) DPT=(?<dst_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$"), "insert")

service:
  pipelines:
    logs:
      receivers: [filelog]
      processors: [transform]
      exporters: [otlp]

Logstash Filter Configuration

filter.grok

# ==============================================================================
# Logstash Pipeline Configuration (/etc/logstash/conf.d/logpipeline.conf)
# ==============================================================================
filter {
  grok {
    match => { "message" => "%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp} %{NOTSPACE:hostname} %{NOTSPACE:cni}: \[%{WORD:action}\] IN=%{NOTSPACE:in_iface} OUT=%{NOTSPACE:out_iface} MAC=%{NOTSPACE:mac} SRC=%{IP:src_ip} DST=%{IP:dst_ip} PROTO=%{WORD:proto} SPT=%{INT:src_port:integer} DPT=%{INT:dst_port:integer}" }
    tag_on_failure => [ "_grokparsefailure" ]
  }

  date {
    match => [ "timestamp", "ISO8601", "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z" ]
    target => "@timestamp"
    remove_field => [ "timestamp" ]
  }
}