Expect

Made for testing: make sure that your records contain the expected key and values

The expect filter plugin allows you to validate that records match certain criteria in their structure, like validating that a key exists or it has a specific value.

The following page just describes the configuration properties available, for a detailed explanation of its usage and use cases, please refer the following page:

• Validating and your Data and Structure

Configuration Parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Property	Description
key_exists	Check if a key with a given name exists in the record.
key_not_exists	Check if a key does not exist in the record.
key_val_is_null	check that the value of the key is NULL.
key_val_is_not_null	check that the value of the key is NOT NULL.
key_val_eq	check that the value of the key equals the given value in the configuration.
action	action to take when a rule does not match. The available options are warn or exit. On warn, a warning message is sent to the logging layer when a mismatch of the rules above is found; using exit makes Fluent Bit abort with status code 255

Getting Started

As mentioned on top, refer to the following page for specific details of usage of this filter:

• Validating and your Data and Structure