panic: runtime error: integer divide by zero

[xaqq]

Hello,

I'm setting up a logstash-forwarder instance. However the software badly crashes by dividing by zero.
This is on Debian Jessie.

For reference, is here the configuration file:

{
  # The network section covers network configuration :)                                        
  "network": {
    # A list of downstream servers listening for our messages.                                 
    # logstash-forwarder will pick one at random and only switch if                            
    # the selected one appears to be dead or unresponsive                                      
    #"servers": [ "localhost:5043" ],                                                          

    # The path to your client ssl certificate (optional)                                       
    #"ssl certificate": "./logstash-forwarder.crt",                                            
    # The path to your client ssl key (optional)                                               
    #"ssl key": "./logstash-forwarder.key",                                                    

    # The path to your trusted ssl CA file. This is used                                       
    # to authenticate your downstream server.                                                  
    "ssl ca": "/etc/lumberjack.crt"

    # Network timeout in seconds. This is most important for                                   
    # logstash-forwarder determining whether to stop waiting for an                            
    # acknowledgement from the downstream server. If an timeout is reached,                    
    # logstash-forwarder will assume the connection or server is bad and                       
    # will connect to a server chosen at random from the servers list.                         
    #"timeout": 15                                                                             
  },
 # The list of files configurations                                                            
  "files": [
    # An array of hashes. Each hash tells what paths to watch and                              
    # what fields to annotate on events from those paths.                                      
    {
      "paths": [
        # single paths are fine                                                                
        "/var/log/messages",
        # globs are fine too, they will be periodically evaluated                              
        # to see if any new files match the wildcard.                                          
        "/var/log/*.log"
      ],
      # A dictionary of fields to annotate on each event.                                      
      "fields": { "type": "syslog" }
    }
  ]
}

[driskell]

Try uncommenting servers. Could be as it seeing empty server list.

[xaqq]

Yes this is indeed the case. But a crash by divide by zero is not nice, an error message would preferred.

[ruflin]

Closing as this issue should be solved in filebeat.