Elasticsearch
The es output plugin, allows to flush your records into a Elasticsearch database. The following instructions assumes that you have a fully operational Elasticsearch service running in your environment.
Configuration Parameters
The parameters index and type can be confusing if you are new to Elastic, if you have used a common relational database before, they can be compared to the database and table concepts.
TLS / SSL
Elasticsearch output plugin supports TTL/SSL, for more details about the properties available and general configuration, please refer to the TLS/SSL section.
Getting Started
In order to insert records into a Elasticsearch service, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
Command Line
The es plugin, can read the parameters from the command line in two ways, through the -p argument (property) or setting them directly through the service URI. The URI format is the following:
Using the format specified, you could start Fluent Bit through:
which is similar to do:
Configuration File
In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:
About Elasticsearch field names
Some input plugins may generate messages where the field names contains dots, since Elasticsearch 2.0 this is not longer allowed, so the current es plugin replaces them with an underscore, e.g:
becomes
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