Upgrading to Graylog 3.1.x

Overview

• Upgrading to Graylog 3.1.x
  • Views & Extended Search
    • HTTP API Changes
    • Configuration File Changes
  • Alerts
    • Alarm Callback Plugins
    • Alert Condition Plugins
    • Deprecated HTTP API Endpoints
    • Configuration File Changes

Views & Extended Search

The Views and Extended Search feature has been open-sourced in this version (except the support for parameters). It was only accessible in Graylog Enterprise in Graylog 3.0.

HTTP API Changes

The following Views related HTTP API paths changed due to the migration to open source:

Old Path	New Path
/api/plugins/org.graylog.plugins.enterprise/views	/api/views
/api/plugins/org.graylog.plugins.enterprise/search	/api/views/search

Configuration File Changes

The following views related configuration file settings changed due to the migration to open source:

Removed Setting	New Setting
enterprise_search_maximum_search_age	views_maximum_search_age

Alerts

The old Alerts system has been replaced by an Alerts & Events system in Graylog 3.1.

Existing alerts will be automatically migrated to the new system when the Graylog 3.1 server starts for the first time. The migration will log the number of migrated legacy alert conditions and alarm callbacks:

2019-08-05T10:36:06.404Z INFO  [V20190722150700_LegacyAlertConditionMigration] Migrated <2> legacy alert conditions and <2> legacy alarm callbacks

Alarm Callback Plugins

The new Alerts & Events system is supporting the execution of legacy Alarm Callback plugins for now. We recommend to switch event definitions over to event notifications, though. At some point in the future support for legacy Alarm Callback plugins will be removed. More information for plugin developers can be found on the Event Notifications page.

Note

Please note, that the data sent via a legacy Alarm Callback might be slightly different than via the old Alerts system. If you’ve built automation on top of alerts, you might want to check that everything still works after the migration.

Alert Condition Plugins

The new Alerts & Events system is not supporting the execution of legacy Alert Condition plugins. Old alerts using the internal alert conditions are automatically migrated to new event definitions (message count, field value and field content value conditions). Custom alert condition plugins cannot be migrated and need to be rewritten as event definitions in the new system.

Deprecated HTTP API Endpoints

The following HTTP API endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release:

Deprecated API Endpoints
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/{alertId}/history
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/{alertId}/history
/api/alerts/callbacks
/api/alerts/callbacks/types
/api/alerts/callbacks/{alarmCallbackId}/test
/api/alerts/conditions
/api/alerts/conditions/types
/api/streams/alerts
/api/streams/alerts/paginated
/api/streams/alerts/{alertId}
/api/streams/{streamid}/alarmcallbacks
/api/streams/{streamid}/alarmcallbacks/available
/api/streams/{streamid}/alarmcallbacks/alarmCallbackId
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/conditions
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/conditions/test
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/conditions/{conditionId}
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/conditions/{conditionId}/test
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/check
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/paginated
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/receivers
/api/streams/{streamid}/alerts/sendDummyAlert

The deprecated API endpoints don’t have a one to one mapping to new ones, but the following Endpoints can be used to manage Event Definitions and Event Notifications as well as search for events:

New Events API Endpoints
/api/events/definitions
/api/events/entity_types
/api/events/notifications
/api/events/search

Configuration File Changes

The following alerting related configuration file settings changed in this release:

Setting	Status	Description
alert_check_interval	removed	Was part of the old and now removed alerts system.
processing_status_persist_interval	added	Related to the new alerts system.
processing_status_update_threshold	added	Related to the new alerts system.
processing_status_journal_write_rate_threshold	added	Related to the new alerts system.
default_events_index_prefix	added	Related to the new alerts system.
default_system_events_index_prefix	added	Related to the new alerts system.

See server configuration page for details on the new settings.