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 specific HTTP parameters to employ:

Configuration Parameters

KeyDescriptiondefault

host

IP address or hostname of Observe's data collection endpoint. $(OBSERVE_CUSTOMER) is your Customer ID

OBSERVE_CUSTOMER.collect.observeinc.com

port

TCP port of to employ when sending to Observe

443

tls

Specify to use tls

on

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 that provides the Observe token needed to authorize sending data into a datastream.

Authorization Bearer ${OBSERVE_TOKEN}

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

workers

The number of workers to perform flush operations for this output.

0

Configuration File

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

[OUTPUT]
    name         http
    match        *
    host         my-observe-customer-id.collect.observeinc.com
    port         443
    tls          on

    uri          /v1/http/fluentbit

    format       msgpack
    header       Authorization     Bearer ${OBSERVE_TOKEN}
    header       X-Observe-Decoder fluent
    compress     gzip

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

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