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