Official and Microsoft Certified Azure Storage Blob connector
The Azure Blob output plugin allows ingesting your records into Azure Blob Storage service. This connector is designed to use the Append Blob and Block Blob API.
Our plugin works with the official Azure Service and also can be configured to be used with a service emulator such as Azurite.
Before getting started, make sure you already have an Azure Storage account. As a reference, the following link explains step-by-step how to set up your account:
We expose different configuration properties. The following table lists all the options available, and the next section has specific configuration details for the official service or the emulator.
As mentioned above, you can either deliver records to the official service or an emulator. Below we have an example for each use case.
The following configuration example generates a random message with a custom tag:
After you run the configuration file above, you will be able to query the data using the Azure Storage Explorer. The example above will generate the following content in the explorer:
The quickest way to get started is to install Azurite using npm:
then run the service:
Azurite comes with a default account_name and shared_key, so make sure to use the specific values provided in the example below (do an exact copy/paste):
after running that Fluent Bit configuration you will see the data flowing into Azurite:
Key
Description
default
account_name
Azure Storage account name. This configuration property is mandatory
shared_key
Specify the Azure Storage Shared Key to authenticate against the service. This configuration property is mandatory.
container_name
Name of the container that will contain the blobs. This configuration property is mandatory
blob_type
Specify the desired blob type. Fluent Bit supports appendblob and blockblob.
appendblob
auto_create_container
If container_name does not exist in the remote service, enabling this option will handle the exception and auto-create the container.
on
path
Optional path to store your blobs. If your blob name is myblob, you can specify sub-directories where to store it using path, so setting path to /logs/kubernetes will store your blob in /logs/kubernetes/myblob.
emulator_mode
If you want to send data to an Azure emulator service like Azurite, enable this option so the plugin will format the requests to the expected format.
off
endpoint
If you are using an emulator, this option allows you to specify the absolute HTTP address of such service. e.g: http://127.0.0.1:10000.
tls
Enable or disable TLS encryption. Note that Azure service requires this to be turned on.
off
compress
Compression type for Azure blob objects. 'gzip' is currently the only supported value. The Content-Encoding HTTP Header will be set to 'gzip'.
none