Observe

Observe employs the http output plugin, allowing you to flush your records into Observe.

For now the functionality is pretty basic and it issues a POST request with the data records in MessagePack (or JSON) format.

The following are the specfic HTTP parameters to employ:

Configuration Parameters

Key
Description
default

host

IP address or hostname of Observe's data collection endpoint

collect.observeinc.com

port

TCP port of to employ when sending to Observe

443

tls

Specify to use tls

on

http_user

Basic Auth Username

${OBSERVE_CUSTOMER}

http_passwd

Basic Auth Password. Requires http_user to be set

${OBSERVE_TOKEN}

uri

Specify the HTTP URI for the Observe's data ingest

/v1/http/fluentbit

format

The data format to be used in the HTTP request body

msgpack

header

The specific header to instructs Observe how to decode incoming payloads

X-Observe-Decoder fluent

compress

Set payload compression mechanism. Option available is 'gzip'

gzip

tls.ca_file

For use with Windows: provide path to root cert

Configuration File

In your main configuration file, append the following Input & Output sections:

[OUTPUT]
    name         http
    match        *
    host         collect.observeinc.com
    port         443
    tls          on

    # For Windows: provide path to root cert
    #tls.ca_file  C:\td-agent-bit\isrgrootx1.pem

    http_user    ${OBSERVE_CUSTOMER}
    http_passwd  ${OBSERVE_TOKEN}
    uri          /v1/http/fluentbit

    format       msgpack
    header       X-Observe-Decoder fluent
    compress     gzip

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