Stackdriver
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Stackdriver output plugin allows to ingest your records into service.
Before to get started with the plugin configuration, make sure to obtain the proper credentials to get access to the service. We strongly recommend to use a common JSON credentials file, reference link:
Your goal is to obtain a credentials JSON file that will be used later by Fluent Bit Stackdriver output plugin.
Key
Description
default
google_service_credentials
Absolute path to a Google Cloud credentials JSON file
Value of environment variable $GOOGLE_SERVICE_CREDENTIALS
service_account_email
Account email associated to the service. Only available if no credentials file has been provided.
Value of environment variable $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL
service_account_secret
Private key content associated with the service account. Only available if no credentials file has been provided.
Value of environment variable $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_SECRET
resource
Set resource type of data. Supported resource types: k8s_container, k8s_node, k8s_pod, global and gce_instance.
global, gce_instance
k8s_cluster_name
The name of the cluster that the container (node or pod based on the resource type) is running in. If the resource type is one of the k8s_container, k8s_node or k8s_pod, then this field is required.
k8s_cluster_location
The physical location of the cluster that contains (node or pod based on the resource type) the container. If the resource type is one of the k8s_container, k8s_node or k8s_pod, then this field is required.
labels_key
The value of this field is used by the Stackdriver output plugin to find the related labels from jsonPayload and then extract the value of it to set the LogEntry Labels.
logging.googleapis.com/labels
If you are using a Google Cloud Credentials File, the following configuration is enough to get started:
An upstream connection error means Fluent Bit was not able to reach Google services, the error looks like this:
This belongs to a network issue by the environment where Fluent Bit is running, make sure that from the Host, Container or Pod you can reach the following Google end-points:
Github reference:
Stackdriver officially supports a .
We plan te support some .
Currently, we have supported . See some use cases of operation .