Can't save a Facility as a string in Web UI

[manul]

According to the documentation for GELF a facility property could be a number or string (great), but in the web-ui it's not possible to select a facility that has string value in the rule selection box or add a string value for a facility in Settings/Manage facilities

[lennartkoopmann]

There should be no need to overwrite a facility string with another string. You could just send the correct string.

[manul]

Ok, but I can't select it in the Add Rule drop down box, there is only the numeric values

[lennartkoopmann]

Ah. Word. :) I'll add this! Thanks.

[wr0ngway]

I'm running into this too - its especially noticeable when using ruby gelf library because it defaults its facility to "gelf-rb" which I then can't filter on in the web ui.

[wr0ngway]

I also tried changing the ruby gelf client to use a facility of "local1" as well as "17", and even though both cases showed up in the web ui, I wasn't able to see either when I did a filter on facility == local1. Could the bug be that only syslog clients cause the facility to get stored?

[wr0ngway]

Yes, facility ends up in mongoDB as the string "17" instead of the integer 17, so thus the webui query fails to find anything.

[lennartkoopmann]

True. This change from integer to string as GELF facility type was made right before the release. This UI incosistencies show that it was to quick. :) Let's fix this for the next release!

Thanks again!

[wr0ngway]

Any thoughts on how you'd like to see this fixed if I take a crack at it?

[lennartkoopmann]

The problem is that we'd have to distinct all available facilities from the existing messages. Do you think we could arrange a short chat about this? :)