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

Key	Description	default
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