Log Architecture & Structural Overview

The Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller Access Log Parser is an essential telemetry stream within the Web Servers & Reverse Proxies ecosystem. Parse Kubernetes Nginx Ingress logs with upstream responses, namespaces, and pod service endpoints.

This schema defines a structure of 17 extracted attributes, including 8 numeric metrics and 9 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 nginx-ingress-controller averages 182 bytes across 17 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
client_ip	string	IP of client connecting to ingress.
timestamp	string	HTTPDATE access timestamp.
method	string	HTTP method.
uri	string	Request URI.
http_version	string	HTTP version.
status	integer	Response status code.
bytes	integer	Bytes sent to client.
referrer	string	HTTP Referer.
user_agent	string	HTTP User-Agent.
request_length	integer	Total length of client request.
request_time	float	Total request processing time in seconds.
proxy_upstream_name	string	Kubernetes upstream service identifier.
upstream_addr	string	Pod backend IP address.
upstream_port	integer	Pod backend port.
upstream_response_length	integer	Response length from backend pod.
upstream_response_time	float	Time spent waiting for backend pod.
upstream_status	integer	HTTP status returned by backend pod.

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:

1If upstream fails or times out, upstream_addr can list multiple IPs comma-separated during retries.

2Make sure request_time and upstream_response_time are cast to floats for latency percentiles (p95/p99).

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       ^(?<client_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]?))))|(?:\b(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62})(?:\.(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62}))*(?:\.?|\b)))) - \[(?<timestamp>(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))/(?:\b(?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\b)/(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b):(?:(?:(?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?))))) (?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))))))\] "(?<method>\b\w+\b) (?<uri>\S+) HTTP/(?<http_version>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+)))))" (?<status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<bytes>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) "(?<referrer>.*?)" "(?<user_agent>.*?)" (?<request_length>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<request_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) \[(?<proxy_upstream_name>\S+)\] (?<upstream_addr>(?:(?:(?:(?:[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]?)))):(?<upstream_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_length>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<upstream_status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$
    Time_Key    timestamp
    Time_Format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z
    Types       status:integer bytes:integer request_length:integer request_time:float upstream_port:integer upstream_response_length:integer upstream_response_time:float upstream_status: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'^(?<client_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]?))))|(?:\b(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62})(?:\.(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62}))*(?:\.?|\b)))) - \[(?<timestamp>(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))/(?:\b(?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\b)/(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b):(?:(?:(?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?))))) (?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))))))\] "(?<method>\b\w+\b) (?<uri>\S+) HTTP/(?<http_version>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+)))))" (?<status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<bytes>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) "(?<referrer>.*?)" "(?<user_agent>.*?)" (?<request_length>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<request_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) \[(?<proxy_upstream_name>\S+)\] (?<upstream_addr>(?:(?:(?:(?:[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]?)))):(?<upstream_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_length>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<upstream_status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+)))$')

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

    # Type coercions
    .status = to_int!(.status)
    .bytes = to_int!(.bytes)
    .request_length = to_int!(.request_length)
    .request_time = to_float!(.request_time)
    .upstream_port = to_int!(.upstream_port)
    .upstream_response_length = to_int!(.upstream_response_length)
    .upstream_response_time = to_float!(.upstream_response_time)
    .upstream_status = to_int!(.upstream_status)

} 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'^(?<client_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]?))))|(?:\b(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62})(?:\.(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62}))*(?:\.?|\b)))) - \[(?<timestamp>(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))/(?:\b(?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\b)/(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b):(?:(?:(?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?))))) (?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))))))\] "(?<method>\b\w+\b) (?<uri>\S+) HTTP/(?<http_version>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+)))))" (?<status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<bytes>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) "(?<referrer>.*?)" "(?<user_agent>.*?)" (?<request_length>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<request_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) \[(?<proxy_upstream_name>\S+)\] (?<upstream_addr>(?:(?:(?:(?:[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]?)))):(?<upstream_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_length>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<upstream_status>(?:[+-]?(?:[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 %{IPORHOST:client_ip} - \[%{HTTPDATE:timestamp}\] "%{WORD:method} %{NOTSPACE:uri} HTTP/%{NUMBER:http_version}" %{INT:status} %{INT:bytes} "%{DATA:referrer}" "%{DATA:user_agent}" %{NUMBER:request_length} %{NUMBER:request_time} \[%{NOTSPACE:proxy_upstream_name}\] %{IP:upstream_addr}:%{INT:upstream_port} %{INT:upstream_response_length} %{NUMBER:upstream_response_time} %{INT:upstream_status}

# Complete Datadog Pipeline Processor JSON:
{
  "type": "grok-parser",
  "name": "LogPipeline Grok Parser",
  "is_enabled": true,
  "source": "message",
  "samples": [],
  "grok": {
    "match_rules": "rule %{IPORHOST:client_ip} - \\[%{HTTPDATE:timestamp}\\] \"%{WORD:method} %{NOTSPACE:uri} HTTP/%{NUMBER:http_version}\" %{INT:status} %{INT:bytes} \"%{DATA:referrer}\" \"%{DATA:user_agent}\" %{NUMBER:request_length} %{NUMBER:request_time} \\[%{NOTSPACE:proxy_upstream_name}\\] %{IP:upstream_addr}:%{INT:upstream_port} %{INT:upstream_response_length} %{NUMBER:upstream_response_time} %{INT:upstream_status}",
    "support_rules": ""
  }
}

# Target Fields Created:
# client_ip (string), timestamp (string), method (string), uri (string), http_version (string), status (integer), bytes (integer), referrer (string), user_agent (string), request_length (integer), request_time (float), proxy_upstream_name (string), upstream_addr (string), upstream_port (integer), upstream_response_length (integer), upstream_response_time (float), upstream_status (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: '^(?<client_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]?))))|(?:\b(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62})(?:\.(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62}))*(?:\.?|\b)))) - \[(?<timestamp>(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))/(?:\b(?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\b)/(?:\b[0-9]{4}\b):(?:(?:(?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9])):(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))(?::(?:(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?))))) (?:(?:Z|[+-](?:(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]))(?::?(?:(?:[0-5][0-9]))))))\] "(?<method>\b\w+\b) (?<uri>\S+) HTTP/(?<http_version>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+)))))" (?<status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<bytes>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) "(?<referrer>.*?)" "(?<user_agent>.*?)" (?<request_length>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<request_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) \[(?<proxy_upstream_name>\S+)\] (?<upstream_addr>(?:(?:(?:(?:[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]?)))):(?<upstream_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_length>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+))))) (?<upstream_status>(?:[+-]?(?:[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, "^(?<client_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]?))))|(?:\\b(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62})(?:\\.(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62}))*(?:\\.?|\\b)))) - \\[(?<timestamp>(?:(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]))/(?:\\b(?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\\b)/(?:\\b[0-9]{4}\\b):(?:(?:(?:(?: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]))))))\\] \"(?<method>\\b\\w+\\b) (?<uri>\\S+) HTTP/(?<http_version>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\\.[0-9]+)?|\\.[0-9]+)))))\" (?<status>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<bytes>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) \"(?<referrer>.*?)\" \"(?<user_agent>.*?)\" (?<request_length>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\\.[0-9]+)?|\\.[0-9]+))))) (?<request_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\\.[0-9]+)?|\\.[0-9]+))))) \\[(?<proxy_upstream_name>\\S+)\\] (?<upstream_addr>(?:(?:(?:(?:[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]?)))):(?<upstream_port>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_length>(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))) (?<upstream_response_time>(?:(?:(?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+(?:\\.[0-9]+)?|\\.[0-9]+))))) (?<upstream_status>(?:[+-]?(?:[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" => "%{IPORHOST:client_ip} - \[%{HTTPDATE:timestamp}\] \"%{WORD:method} %{NOTSPACE:uri} HTTP/%{NUMBER:http_version}\" %{INT:status:integer} %{INT:bytes:integer} \"%{DATA:referrer}\" \"%{DATA:user_agent}\" %{NUMBER:request_length:integer} %{NUMBER:request_time:float} \[%{NOTSPACE:proxy_upstream_name}\] %{IP:upstream_addr}:%{INT:upstream_port:integer} %{INT:upstream_response_length:integer} %{NUMBER:upstream_response_time:float} %{INT:upstream_status:integer}" }
    tag_on_failure => [ "_grokparsefailure" ]
  }

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