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Pipeline stops processing events because of exception in filterworker "#<NoMethodError: undefined method `>' for nil:NilClass>" #1637

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@robinsmidsrod

I'm getting this error in the logstash error log, and when it happens the pipeline stops processing events. The inputs are still able to receive events, but no events get through to the output stage.

{:timestamp=>"2014-08-14T08:09:19.415000+0000", :message=>"Exception in filterworker", "exception"=>#<NoMethodError: undefined method `>' for nil:NilClass>, "backtrace"=>["(eval):920:in `initialize'", "org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271:in `call'", "/opt/logstash/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:262:in `filter'", "/opt/logstash/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:203:in `filterworker'", "/opt/logstash/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:143:in `start_filters'"], :level=>:error}

The error happens infrequently (about every other day or so), so I'm unsure what exactly is causing it.

I'm using the website DEB of logstash 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.

# java -version
java version "1.7.0_55"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

What other information do you need to debug this further?

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