HTTP

The http output plugin allows to flush your records into a HTTP endpoint. For now the functionality is pretty basic and it issues a POST request with the data records in MessagePack (or JSON) format.

Configuration Parameters

Key

Description

default

host

IP address or hostname of the target HTTP Server

127.0.0.1

http_User

Basic Auth Username

http_Passwd

Basic Auth Password. Requires HTTP_User to be set

AWS_Auth

Enable AWS SigV4 authentication

false

AWS_Service

Specify the AWS service code, i.e. es, xray, etc., of your service, used by SigV4 authentication. Usually can be found in the service endpoint's subdomains, protocol://service-code.region-code.amazonaws.com

AWS_Region

Specify the AWS region of your service, used by SigV4 authentication

AWS_STS_Endpoint

Specify the custom sts endpoint to be used with STS API, used with the AWS_Role_ARN option, used by SigV4 authentication

AWS_Role_ARN

AWS IAM Role to assume, used by SigV4 authentication

AWS_External_ID

External ID for the AWS IAM Role specified with aws_role_arn, used by SigV4 authentication

port

TCP port of the target HTTP Server

Proxy

Specify an HTTP Proxy. The expected format of this value is http://HOST:PORT. Note that HTTPS is not currently supported. It is recommended not to set this and to configure the HTTP proxy environment variables instead as they support both HTTP and HTTPS.

uri

Specify an optional HTTP URI for the target web server, e.g: /something

compress

Set payload compression mechanism. Option available is 'gzip'

format

Specify the data format to be used in the HTTP request body, by default it uses msgpack. Other supported formats are json, json_stream and json_lines and gelf.

msgpack

allow_duplicated_headers

Specify if duplicated headers are allowed. If a duplicated header is found, the latest key/value set is preserved.

true

log_response_payload

Specify if the response paylod should be logged or not.

true

header_tag

Specify an optional HTTP header field for the original message tag.

header

Add a HTTP header key/value pair. Multiple headers can be set.

json_date_key

Specify the name of the time key in the output record. To disable the time key just set the value to false.

date

json_date_format

Specify the format of the date. Supported formats are double, epoch, iso8601 (eg: 2018-05-30T09:39:52.000681Z) and java_sql_timestamp (eg: 2018-05-30 09:39:52.000681)

double

gelf_timestamp_key

Specify the key to use for timestamp in gelf format

gelf_host_key

Specify the key to use for the host in gelf format

gelf_short_message_key

Specify the key to use as the short message in gelf format

gelf_full_message_key

Specify the key to use for the full message in gelf format

gelf_level_key

Specify the key to use for the level in gelf format

body_key

Specify the key to use as the body of the request (must prefix with "$"). The key must contain either a binary or raw string, and the content type can be specified using headers_key (which must be passed whenever body_key is present). When this option is present, each msgpack record will create a separate request.

headers_key

Specify the key to use as the headers of the request (must prefix with "$"). The key must contain a map, which will have the contents merged on the request headers. This can be used for many purposes, such as specifying the content-type of the data contained in body_key.

workers

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

2

TLS / SSL

The HTTP output plugin supports TLS/SSL. For more details about the properties available and general configuration, see TLS/SSL.

Getting Started

In order to insert records into a HTTP server, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:

Command Line

The http plugin, can read the parameters from the command line in two ways, through the -p argument (property) or setting them directly through the service URI. The URI format is the following:

http://host:port/something

Using the format specified, you could start Fluent Bit through:

fluent-bit -i cpu -t cpu -o http://192.168.2.3:80/something -m '*'

Configuration File

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

[INPUT]
    Name  cpu
    Tag   cpu

[OUTPUT]
    Name  http
    Match *
    Host  192.168.2.3
    Port  80
    URI   /something

pipeline:
    inputs:
        - name: cpu
          tag:  cpu
    outputs:
        - name: http
          match: '*'
          host: 192.168.2.3
          port: 80
          URI: /something

By default, the URI becomes tag of the message, the original tag is ignored. To retain the tag, multiple configuration sections have to be made based and flush to different URIs.

Another approach we also support is the sending the original message tag in a configurable header. It's up to the receiver to do what it wants with that header field: parse it and use it as the tag for example.

To configure this behaviour, add this config:

[OUTPUT]
    Name  http
    Match *
    Host  192.168.2.3
    Port  80
    URI   /something
    Format json
    header_tag  FLUENT-TAG

    outputs:
        - name: http
          match: '*'
          host: 192.168.2.3
          port: 80
          URI: /something
          format: json
          header_tag: FLUENT-TAG

Provided you are using Fluentd as data receiver, you can combine in_http and out_rewrite_tag_filter to make use of this HTTP header.

<source>
  @type http
  add_http_headers true
</source>

<match something>
  @type rewrite_tag_filter
  <rule>
    key HTTP_FLUENT_TAG
    pattern /^(.*)$/
    tag $1
  </rule>
</match>

Notice how we override the tag, which is from URI path, with our custom header

Example : Add a header

[OUTPUT]
    Name           http
    Match          *
    Host           127.0.0.1
    Port           9000
    Header         X-Key-A Value_A
    Header         X-Key-B Value_B
    URI            /something

    outputs:
        - name: http
          match: '*'
          host: 127.0.0.1
          port: 9000
          header:
            - X-Key-A Value_A
            - X-Key-B Value_B
          URI: /something

Example : Sumo Logic HTTP Collector

Suggested configuration for Sumo Logic using json_lines with iso8601 timestamps. The PrivateKey is specific to a configured HTTP collector.

[OUTPUT]
    Name             http
    Match            *
    Host             collectors.au.sumologic.com
    Port             443
    URI              /receiver/v1/http/[PrivateKey]
    Format           json_lines
    Json_date_key    timestamp
    Json_date_format iso8601

    outputs:
        - name: http
          match: '*'
          host: collectors.au.sumologic.com
          port: 443
          URI: /receiver/v1/http/[PrivateKey]
          format: json_lines
          json_date_key: timestamp
          json_date_format: iso8601

A sample Sumo Logic query for the CPU input. (Requires json_lines format with iso8601 date format for the timestamp field).

_sourcecategory="my_fluent_bit"
| json "cpu_p" as cpu
| timeslice 1m
| max(cpu) as cpu group by _timeslice

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