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The AWS Filter Enriches logs with AWS Metadata. Currently the plugin adds the EC2 instance ID and availability zone to log records. To use this plugin, you must be running in EC2 and have the instance metadata service enabled.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
Note: If you run Fluent Bit in a container, you may have to use instance metadata v1. The plugin behaves the same regardless of which version is used.
EC2 Tags are a useful feature that enables you to label and organize your EC2 instances by creating custom-defined key-value pairs. These tags are commonly utilized for resource management, cost allocation, and automation. Consequently, including them in the Fluent Bit generated logs is almost essential.
To achieve this, AWS Filter can be configured with tags_enabled true to enable the tagging of logs with the relevant EC2 instance tags. This setup ensures that logs are appropriately tagged, making it easier to manage and analyze them based on specific criteria.
To use the tags_enabled true functionality in Fluent Bit, the instance-metadata-tags option must be enabled on the EC2 instance where Fluent Bit is running. Without this option enabled, Fluent Bit will not be able to retrieve the tags associated with the EC2 instance. However, this does not mean that Fluent Bit will fail or stop working altogether. Instead, if instance-metadata-tags option is not enabled, Fluent Bit will continue to operate normally and capture other values, such as the EC2 instance ID or availability zone, based on its configuration.
Assume that our EC2 instance has many tags, some of which have lengthy values that are irrelevant to the logs we want to collect. Only two tags, department and project, seem to be valuable for our purpose. Here is a configuration which reflects this requirement:
If we run Fluent Bit, what will the logs look like? Here is an example of what the logs might contain:
Suppose our EC2 instance has three tags: Name:fluent-bit-docs-example, project:fluentbit, and department:it. In this example, we want to exclude the department tag since we consider it redundant. This is because all of our projects belong to the it department, and we do not need to waste storage space on redundant labels.
Here is an example configuration that achieves this:
The resulting logs might look like this:
imds_version
Specify which version of the instance metadata service to use. Valid values are 'v1' or 'v2'.
v2
az
The availability zone; for example, "us-east-1a".
true
ec2_instance_id
The EC2 instance ID.
true
ec2_instance_type
The EC2 instance type.
false
private_ip
The EC2 instance private ip.
false
ami_id
The EC2 instance image id.
false
account_id
The account ID for current EC2 instance.
false
hostname
The hostname for current EC2 instance.
false
vpc_id
The VPC ID for current EC2 instance.
false
tags_enabled
Specifies if should attach EC2 instance tags. EC2 instance must have the instance-metadata-tags option enabled (which is disabled by default).
false
tags_include
Defines list of specific EC2 tag keys to inject into the logs. Tag keys must be separated by "," character. Tags which are not present in this list will be ignored. Example: Name,tag1,tag2.
tags_exclude
Defines list of specific EC2 tag keys not to inject into the logs. Tag keys must be separated by "," character. Tags which are not present in this list will be injected into the logs. If both tags_include and tags_exclude are specified, configuration is invalid and plugin fails. Example: Name,tag1,tag2
retry_interval_s
Defines minimum duration between retries for fetching EC2 instance tags.
300
Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter allows to enrich your log files with Kubernetes metadata.
When Fluent Bit is deployed in Kubernetes as a DaemonSet and configured to read the log files from the containers (using tail or systemd input plugins), this filter aims to perform the following operations:
Analyze the Tag and extract the following metadata:
Pod Name
Namespace
Container Name
Container ID
Query Kubernetes API Server to obtain extra metadata for the POD in question:
Pod ID
Labels
Annotations
Namespace Labels
Namespace Annotations
The data is cached locally in memory and appended to each record.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
Kubernetes Filter aims to provide several ways to process the data contained in the log key. The following explanation of the workflow assumes that your original Docker parser defined in parsers.conf is as follows:
Since Fluent Bit v1.2 we are not suggesting the use of decoders (Decode_Field_As) if you are using Elasticsearch database in the output to avoid data type conflicts.
To perform processing of the log key, it's mandatory to enable the Merge_Log configuration property in this filter, then the following processing order will be done:
If a Pod suggest a parser, the filter will use that parser to process the content of log.
If the option Merge_Parser was set and the Pod did not suggest a parser, process the log content using the suggested parser in the configuration.
If no Pod was suggested and no Merge_Parser is set, try to handle the content as JSON.
If log value processing fails, the value is untouched. The order above is not chained, meaning it's exclusive and the filter will try only one of the options above, not all of them.
Namespace Meta can be enabled via the following settings:
Namespace_Labels
Namespace_Annotations
Using any Namespace Meta requires the use of the Kube API as it can not be fetched directly from Kubelet. If Use_Kubelet On has been set, the Kubelet api will only be used to fetch pod metadata, while namespace meta is fetched from the upstream Kubernetes API.
Namespace Meta if collected will be stored within a kubernetes_namespace record key.
Namespace meta is not be guaranteed to be in sync as namespace labels & annotations can be adjusted after pod creation. Adjust
Kube_Meta_Namespace_Cache_TTLto lower caching times to fit your use case.
Namespace_Metadata_Only
Using this feature will instruct fluent-bit to only fetch namespace metadata and to not fetch POD metadata at all. POD basic metadata like container id, host, etc will be NOT be added and the Labels and Annotations configuration options which are used specifically for POD Metadata will be ignored.
A flexible feature of Fluent Bit Kubernetes filter is that allow Kubernetes Pods to suggest certain behaviors for the log processor pipeline when processing the records. At the moment it support:
Suggest a pre-defined parser
Request to exclude logs
The following annotations are available:
The following Pod definition runs a Pod that emits Apache logs to the standard output, in the Annotations it suggest that the data should be processed using the pre-defined parser called apache:
There are certain situations where the user would like to request that the log processor simply skip the logs from the Pod in question:
Note that the annotation value is boolean which can take a true or false and must be quoted.
Tail support Tags expansion, which means that if a tag have a star character (*), it will replace the value with the absolute path of the monitored file, so if you file name and path is:
then the Tag for every record of that file becomes:
note that slashes are replaced with dots.
Kubernetes Filter do not care from where the logs comes from, but it cares about the absolute name of the monitored file, because that information contains the pod name and namespace name that are used to retrieve associated metadata to the running Pod from the Kubernetes Master/API Server.
If you have large pod specifications (can be caused by large numbers of environment variables, etc.), be sure to increase the
Buffer_Sizeparameter of the kubernetes filter. If object sizes exceed this buffer, some metadata will fail to be injected to the logs.
If the configuration property Kube_Tag_Prefix was configured (available on Fluent Bit >= 1.1.x), it will use that value to remove the prefix that was appended to the Tag in the previous Input section. Note that the configuration property defaults to kube.var.logs.containers. , so the previous Tag content will be transformed from:
to:
the transformation above do not modify the original Tag, just creates a new representation for the filter to perform metadata lookup.
that new value is used by the filter to lookup the pod name and namespace, for that purpose it uses an internal Regular expression:
Under certain and not common conditions, a user would want to alter that hard-coded regular expression, for that purpose the option Regex_Parser can be used (documented on top).
One such use case involves splitting logs by namespace, pods, containers or container id. The tag is restructured within the tail input using match groups, this can simplify the filtering by those match groups later in the pipeline. Since the tag no longer follows the original file name, a custom Regex_Parser that matches the new tag structure is required:
So at this point the filter is able to gather the values of pod_name and namespace, with that information it will check in the local cache (internal hash table) if some metadata for that key pair exists, if so, it will enrich the record with the metadata value, otherwise it will connect to the Kubernetes Master/API Server and retrieve that information.
There are some configuration setup needed for this feature.
Role Configuration for Fluent Bit DaemonSet Example:
The difference is that kubelet need a special permission for resource nodes/proxy to get HTTP request in. When creating the role or clusterRole, you need to add nodes/proxy into the rule for resource.
Fluent Bit Configuration Example:
So for fluent bit configuration, you need to set the Use_Kubelet to true to enable this feature.
DaemonSet config Example:
The key point is to set hostNetwork to true and dnsPolicy to ClusterFirstWithHostNet that fluent bit DaemonSet could call Kubelet locally. Otherwise it could not resolve the dns for kubelet.
Now you are good to use this new feature!
Basically you should see no difference about your experience for enriching your log files with Kubernetes metadata.
To check if Fluent Bit is using the kubelet, you can check fluent bit logs and there should be a log like this:
And if you are in debug mode, you could see more:
The following section goes over specific log messages you may run into and how to solve them to ensure that Fluent Bit's Kubernetes filter is operating properly
If you are not seeing metadata added to your kubernetes logs and see the following in your log message, then you may be facing connectivity issues with the Kubernetes API server.
Potential fix #1: Check Kubernetes roles
When Fluent Bit is deployed as a DaemonSet it generally runs with specific roles that allow the application to talk to the Kubernetes API server. If you are deployed in a more restricted environment check that all the Kubernetes roles are set correctly.
You can test this by running the following command (replace fluentbit-system with the namespace where your fluentbit is installed)
If set roles are configured correctly, it should simply respond with yes.
For instance, using Azure AKS, running the above command may respond with:
If you have connectivity to the API server, but still "could not get meta for POD" - debug logging might give you a message with Azure does not have opinion for this user. Then the following subject may need to be included in the fluentbit ClusterRoleBinding:
appended to subjects array:
Potential fix #2: Check Kubernetes IPv6
There may be cases where you have IPv6 on in the environment and you need to enable this within Fluent Bit. Under the service tag please set the following option ipv6 to on .
Potential fix #3: Check connectivity to Kube_URL
By default the Kube_URL is set to https://kubernetes.default.svc:443 . Ensure that you have connectivity to this endpoint from within the cluster and that there are no special permission interfering with the connection.
In some cases, you may only see some objects being appended with metadata while other objects are not enriched. This can occur at times when local data is cached and does not contain the correct id for the kubernetes object that requires enrichment. For most Kubernetes objects the Kubernetes API server is updated which will then be reflected in Fluent Bit logs, however in some cases for Pod objects this refresh to the Kubernetes API server can be skipped, causing metadata to be skipped.
Look up Geo data from IP
GeoIP2 Filter allows you to enrich the incoming data stream using location data from GeoIP2 database.
This plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
The following configuration will process incoming remote_addr, and append country information retrieved from GeoLite2 database.
Each Record parameter above specifies the following triplet:
The field name to be added to records (country)
The lookup key to process (remote_addr)
The query for GeoIP2 database (%{country.names.en})
By running Fluent Bit with the configuration above, you will see the following output:
Note that the GeoLite2-City.mmdb database is available from MaxMind's official site.
The following plugin looks up if a value in a specified list exists and then allows the addition of a record to indicate if found. Introduced in version 1.8.4
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
In the following configuration we will read a file test1.log that includes the following values
Additionally, we will use the following lookup file which contains a list of malicious IPs (ip_list.txt)
In the configuration we are using $remote_addr as the lookup key and 7.7.7.7 is malicious. This means the record we would output for the last record would look like the following
Made for testing: make sure that your records contain the expected key and values
The expect filter plugin allows you to validate that records match certain criteria in their structure, like validating that a key exists or it has a specific value.
The following page just describes the configuration properties available, for a detailed explanation of its usage and use cases, please refer the following page:
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
As mentioned on top, refer to the following page for specific details of usage of this filter:
Select or exclude records using patterns
The Grep Filter plugin lets you match or exclude specific records based on regular expression patterns for values or nested values.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Value Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
Enable the Record Accessor feature to specify the KEY. Use the record accessor to match values against nested values.
To start filtering records, run the filter from the command line or through the configuration file. The following example assumes that you have a file named lines.txt with the following content:
When using the command line, pay close attention to quote the regular expressions. Using a configuration file might be easier.
The following command loads the tail plugin and reads the content of lines.txt. Then the grep filter applies a regular expression rule over the log field created by the tail plugin and only passes records with a field value starting with aa:
The filter lets you use multiple rules which are applied in order. You can have as many Regex and Exclude entries as required.
To match or exclude records based on nested values, you can use Record Accessor format as the KEY name.
Consider the following record example:
For example, to exclude records that match the nested field kubernetes.labels.app, use the following rule:
You might want to drop records that are missing certain keys.
One way to do this is to exclude with a regex that matches anything. A missing key fails this check.
The followinfg example checks for a specific valid value for the key:
The specified key iot_timestamp must match the expected expression. If it doesn't, or is missing or empty, then it will be excluded.
If you want to set multiple Regex or Exclude, use the Logical_Op property to use a logical conjuction or disjunction.
If Logical_Op is set, setting both Regex and Exclude results in an error.
The output looks similar to:
The ECS Filter Enriches logs with AWS Elastic Container Service Metadata. The plugin can enrich logs with task, cluster and container metadata. The plugin uses the ECS Agent introspection API to obtain metadata. This filter only works with the ECS EC2 launch type. The filter only works when Fluent Bit is running on an ECS EC2 Container Instance and has access to the ECS Agent introspection API. The filter is not supported on ECS Fargate. To obtain metadata on ECS Fargate, use the built-in FireLens metadata or the AWS for Fluent Bit init project.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
The following template variables can be used for values with the Add option. See the tutorial below for examples.
| Variable | Description | Supported with Cluster_Metadata_Only On |
|---|---|---|
The output log should be similar to:
The output log would be similar to:
Notice that the template variables in the value for the resource key are separated by dot characters, only dots and commas (. and ,) can come after a template variable. For more information, please check the Record accessor limitation's section.
This examples shows a use case for the Cluster_Metadata_Only option- attaching cluster metadata to ECS Agent logs.
The Parser Filter plugin allows for parsing fields in event records.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|
This is an example of parsing a record {"data":"100 0.5 true This is example"}.
The plugin needs a parser file which defines how to parse each field.
The path of the parser file should be written in configuration file under the [SERVICE] section.
The output is
You can see the records {"data":"100 0.5 true This is example"} are parsed.
By default, the parser plugin only keeps the parsed fields in its output.
If you enable Reserve_Data, all other fields are preserved:
This will produce the output:
If you enable Reserved_Data and Preserve_Key, the original key field will be preserved as well:
This will produce the following output:
The Record Modifier plugin lets you append fields to a record, or exclude specific fields.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description |
|---|
To start filtering records, run the filter from the command line or through a configuration file.
This is a sample in_mem record to filter.
The following configuration file appends a product name and hostname to a record using an environment variable:
You can run the filter from command line:
The output looks something like:
Remove_keyThe following configuration file removes Swap.* fields:
You can also run the filter from command line.
The output looks something like:
Allowlist_keyThe following configuration file retains Mem.* fields.
You can also run the filter from command line:
The output looks something like:
The Modify Filter plugin allows you to change records using rules and conditions.
As an example using JSON notation to,
Rename Key2 to RenamedKey
Add a key OtherKey with value Value3 if OtherKey does not yet exist
Example (input)
Example (output)
The plugin supports the following rules:
Rules are case insensitive, parameters are not
Any number of rules can be set in a filter instance.
Rules are applied in the order they appear, with each rule operating on the result of the previous rule.
The plugin supports the following conditions:
Conditions are case insensitive, parameters are not
Any number of conditions can be set.
Conditions apply to the whole filter instance and all its rules. Not to individual rules.
All conditions have to be true for the rules to be applied.
Note: Using the command line mode requires quotes parse the wildcard properly. The use of a configuration file is recommended.
The output of both the command line and configuration invocations should be identical and result in the following output.
Generate metrics from logs
The Log To Metrics Filter plugin allows you to generate log-derived metrics. It currently supports modes to count records, provide a gauge for field values or create a histogram. You can also match or exclude specific records based on regular expression patterns for values or nested values. This filter plugin does not actually act as a record filter and does not change or drop records. All records will pass this filter untouched and generated metrics will be emitted into a seperate metric pipeline.
Please note that this plugin is an experimental feature and is not recommended for production use. Configuration parameters and plugin functionality are subject to change without notice.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Mandatory | Value Format |
|---|
The following example takes records from two dummy inputs and counts all messages passing through the log_to_metrics filter. It then generates metric records which are provided to the prometheus_exporter:
You can then use e.g. curl command to retrieve the generated metric:
The gauge mode needs a value_field specified, where the current metric values are generated from. In this example we also apply a regex filter and enable the kubernetes_mode option:
You can then use e.g. curl command to retrieve the generated metric:
As you can see in the output, only one line is printed, as the records from the first input plugin are ignored, as they do not match the regex.
If you execute the above curl command multiple times, you see, that in this example the metric value stays at 60, as the messages generated by the dummy plugin are not changing. In a real-world scenario the values would change and return the last processed value.
Metric label_values
As you can see, the label sets defined by add_label and label_field are added to the metric. The lines in the metric represent every combination of labels. Only actually used combinations are displayed here. To see this, you can add a dummy dummy input to your configuration.
The metric output would then look like:
You can also see, that all the kubernetes labels have been attached to the metric, accordingly.
Similar to the gauge mode, histogram needs a value_field specified, where the current metric values are generated from. In this example we also apply a regex filter and enable the kubernetes_mode option:
You can then use e.g. curl command to retrieve the generated metric:
As you can see in the output, there are per default the buckets 0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0 and +Inf, in which values are sorted into. A sum and a counter are also part of this metric. You can specify own buckets in the config, like in the following example:
Please note, that the +Inf bucket will always be included implicitly. The buckets in a histogram are cumulative, so a value added to one bucket will add to all larger buckets, too.
This filter also attaches Kubernetes labels to each metric, identical to the behavior of label_field. This results in two sets for the histogram.
The Lua filter allows you to modify the incoming records (even split one record into multiple records) using custom scripts.
Due to the necessity to have a flexible filtering mechanism, it is now possible to extend Fluent Bit capabilities by writing custom filters using Lua programming language. A Lua-based filter takes two steps:
Configure the Filter in the main configuration
Prepare a Lua script that will be used by the Filter
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description |
|---|
In order to test the filter, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file. The following examples use the input plugin for data ingestion, invoke Lua filter using the script and call the function which only prints the same information to the standard output:
From the command line you can use the following options:
In your main configuration file append the following Input, Filter & Output sections:
The life cycle of a filter have the following steps:
Upon Tag matching by this filter, it may process or bypass the record.
If tag matched, it will accept the record and invoke the function defined in the call property which basically is the name of a function defined in the Lua script.
Invoke Lua function and pass each record in JSON format.
Upon return, validate return value and continue the pipeline.
The Lua script can have one or multiple callbacks that can be used by this filter. The function prototype is as follows:
Each callback must return three values:
For functional examples of this interface, please refer to the code samples provided in the source code of the project located here:
Kubernetes pods generally have various environment variables set by the infrastructure automatically which may contain useful information.
In this example, we want to extract part of the Kubernetes cluster API name.
The environment variable is set like so: KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST: api.sandboxbsh-a.project.domain.com
We want to extract the sandboxbsh name and add it to our record as a special key.
filters.lua:
+Lua treats number as double. It means an integer field (e.g. IDs, log levels) will be converted double. To avoid type conversion, The type_int_key property is available.
The Lua callback function can return an array of tables (i.e., array of records) in its third record return value. With this feature, the Lua filter can split one input record into multiple records according to custom logic.
For example:
In this example, we want to filter istio logs to exclude lines with response codes between 1 and 399. Istio is configured to write the logs in json format.
Script response_code_filter.lua
Configuration to get istio logs and apply response code filter to them.
In the output only the messages with response code 0 or greater than 399 are shown.
The following example converts a field's specific type of datetime format to utc ISO 8601 format.
Script custom_datetime_format.lua
Use this configuration to obtain a JSON key with datetime, and then convert it to another format.
and
Which are handled by dummy in this example.
The output of this process shows the conversion of the datetime of two timezones to ISO 8601 format in UTC.
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|
| Annotation | Description | Default |
|---|
Kubernetes Filter depends on either or input plugins to process and enrich records with Kubernetes metadata. Here we will explain the workflow of Tail and how it configuration is correlated with Kubernetes filter. Consider the following configuration example (just for demo purposes, not production):
In the input section, the plugin will monitor all files ending in .log in path /var/log/containers/. For every file it will read every line and apply the docker parser. Then the records are emitted to the next step with an expanded tag.
When runs, it will try to match all records that starts with kube. (note the ending dot), so records from the file mentioned above will hit the matching rule and the filter will try to enrich the records
If you want to know more details, check the source code of that definition .
You can see on web site how this operation is performed, check the following demo link:
There is an reported about kube-apiserver fall over and become unresponsive when cluster is too large and too many requests are sent to it. For this feature, fluent bit Kubernetes filter will send the request to kubelet /pods endpoint instead of kube-apiserver to retrieve the pods information and use it to enrich the log. Since Kubelet is running locally in nodes, the request would be responded faster and each node would only get one request one time. This could save kube-apiserver power to handle other requests. When this feature is enabled, you should see no difference in the kubernetes metadata added to logs, but the Kube-apiserver bottleneck should be avoided when cluster is large.
| Operation | Parameter 1 | Parameter 2 | Description |
|---|
| Condition | Parameter | Parameter 2 | Description |
|---|
You can set as STRING:KEY for nested key.
In order to start filtering records, you can run the filter from the command line or through the configuration file. The following invokes the , which outputs the following (example),
The filter also allows to use multiple rules which are applied in order, you can have many Regex and Exclude entries as required (see filter plugin).
| name | description |
|---|
| name | data type | description |
|---|
The include examples to verify during CI.
As an example that combines a bit of LUA processing with the that demonstrates using environment variables with LUA regex and substitutions.
Fluent Bit supports protected mode to prevent crash when executes invalid Lua script. See also .
See also .
database
Path to the GeoIP2 database.
lookup_key
Field name to process
record
Defines the KEY LOOKUP_KEY VALUE triplet. See below for how to set up this option.
file
The single value file that Fluent Bit will use as a lookup table to determine if the specified lookup_key exists
lookup_key
The specific key to look up and determine if it exists, supports record accessor
record
The record to add if the lookup_key is found in the specified file. Note you may add multiple record parameters.
mode
Set the check mode. exact and partial are supported. Default : exact.
print_query_time
Print to stdout the elapseed query time for every matched record. Default: false
ignore_case
Compare strings by ignoring case. Default: false
key_exists
Check if a key with a given name exists in the record.
key_not_exists
Check if a key does not exist in the record.
key_val_is_null
check that the value of the key is NULL.
key_val_is_not_null
check that the value of the key is NOT NULL.
key_val_eq
check that the value of the key equals the given value in the configuration.
action
action to take when a rule does not match. The available options are warn , exit or "result_key". On warn, a warning message is sent to the logging layer when a mismatch of the rules above is found; using exit makes Fluent Bit abort with status code 255; result_key is to add a matching result to each record.
result_key
specify a key name of matching result. This key is to be used only when 'action' is 'result_key'.
Regex
KEY REGEX
Keep records where the content of KEY matches the regular expression.
Exclude
KEY REGEX
Exclude records where the content of KEY matches the regular expression.
Logical_Op
Operation
Specify a logical operator: AND, OR or legacy (default). In legacy mode the behaviour is either AND or OR depending on whether the grep is including (uses AND) or excluding (uses OR). Available from 2.1 or higher.
Add
This parameter is similar to the ADD option in the modify filter. You can specify it any number of times and it takes two arguments, a KEY name and VALUE. The value uses Fluent Bit record_accessor syntax to create a template that uses ECS Metadata values. See the list below for supported metadata templating keys. This option is designed to give you full power to control both the key names for metadata as well as the format for metadata values. See the examples below for more.
No default
ECS_Tag_Prefix
This parameter is similar to the Kube_Tag_Prefix option in the Kubernetes filter and performs the same function. The full log tag should be prefixed with this string and after the prefix the filter must find the next characters in the tag to be the Docker Container Short ID (the first 12 characters of the full container ID). The filter uses this to identify which container the log came from so it can find which task it is a part of. See the design section below for more information. If not specified, it defaults to empty string, meaning that the tag must be prefixed with the 12 character container short ID. If you just want to attach cluster metadata to system/OS logs from processes that do not run as part of containers or ECS Tasks, then do not set this parameter and enable the Cluster_Metadata_Only option
emptry string
Cluster_Metadata_Only
When enabled, the plugin will only attempt to attach cluster metadata values. This is useful if you want to attach cluster metadata to system/OS logs from processes that do not run as part of containers or ECS Tasks.
Off
ECS_Meta_Cache_TTL
The filter builds a hash table in memory mapping each unique container short ID to its metadata. This option sets a max TTL for objects in the hash table. You should set this if you have frequent container/task restarts. For example, your cluster runs short running batch jobs that complete in less than 10 minutes, there is no reason to keep any stored metadata longer than 10 minutes. So you would set this parameter to "10m".
1h (1 hour)
$ClusterName
The ECS cluster name. Fluent Bit is running on EC2 instance(s) that are part of this cluster.
Yes
$ContainerInstanceARN
The full ARN of the ECS EC2 Container Instance. This is the instance that Fluent Bit is running on.
Yes
$ContainerInstanceID
The ID of the ECS EC2 Container Instance.
Yes
$ECSAgentVersion
The Version string of the ECS Agent that is running on the container instance.
Yes
$ECSContainerName
The name of the container from which the log originated. This is the name in your ECS Task Definition.
No
$DockerContainerName
The name of the container from which the log originated. This is the name obtained from Docker and is the name shown if you run docker ps on the instance.
No
$ContainerID
The ID of the container from which the log originated. This is the full 64 character long container ID.
No
$TaskDefinitionFamily
The family name of the task definition for the task from which the log originated.
No
$TaskDefinitionVersion
The version/revision of the task definition for the task from which the log originated.
No
$TaskID
The ID of the ECS Task from which the log originated.
No
$TaskARN
The full ARN of the ECS Task from which the log originated.
No
Set | STRING:KEY | STRING:VALUE | Add a key/value pair with key |
Add | STRING:KEY | STRING:VALUE | Add a key/value pair with key |
Remove | STRING:KEY | NONE | Remove a key/value pair with key |
Remove_wildcard | WILDCARD:KEY | NONE | Remove all key/value pairs with key matching wildcard |
Remove_regex | REGEXP:KEY | NONE | Remove all key/value pairs with key matching regexp |
Rename | STRING:KEY | STRING:RENAMED_KEY | Rename a key/value pair with key |
Hard_rename | STRING:KEY | STRING:RENAMED_KEY | Rename a key/value pair with key |
Copy | STRING:KEY | STRING:COPIED_KEY | Copy a key/value pair with key |
Hard_copy | STRING:KEY | STRING:COPIED_KEY | Copy a key/value pair with key |
Move_to_start | WILDCARD:KEY | NONE | Move key/value pairs with keys matching KEY to the start of the message |
Move_to_end | WILDCARD:KEY | NONE | Move key/value pairs with keys matching KEY to the end of the message |
Key_exists | STRING:KEY | NONE | Is |
Key_does_not_exist | STRING:KEY | NONE | Is |
A_key_matches | REGEXP:KEY | NONE | Is |
No_key_matches | REGEXP:KEY | NONE | Is |
Key_value_equals | STRING:KEY | STRING:VALUE | Is |
Key_value_does_not_equal | STRING:KEY | STRING:VALUE | Is |
Key_value_matches | STRING:KEY | REGEXP:VALUE | Is |
Key_value_does_not_match | STRING:KEY | REGEXP:VALUE | Is |
Matching_keys_have_matching_values | REGEXP:KEY | REGEXP:VALUE | Is |
Matching_keys_do_not_have_matching_values | REGEXP:KEY | REGEXP:VALUE | Is |
fluentbit.io/parser[_stream][-container] | Suggest a pre-defined parser. The parser must be registered already by Fluent Bit. This option will only be processed if Fluent Bit configuration (Kubernetes Filter) have enabled the option K8S-Logging.Parser. If present, the stream (stdout or stderr) will restrict that specific stream. If present, the container can override a specific container in a Pod. |
fluentbit.io/exclude[_stream][-container] | Request to Fluent Bit to exclude or not the logs generated by the Pod. This option will only be processed if Fluent Bit configuration (Kubernetes Filter) have enabled the option K8S-Logging.Exclude. | False |
tag | Name of the tag associated with the incoming record. |
timestamp | Unix timestamp with nanoseconds associated with the incoming record. The original format is a double (seconds.nanoseconds) |
record | Lua table with the record content |
code | integer | The code return value represents the result and further action that may follows. If code equals -1, means that the record will be dropped. If code equals 0, the record will not be modified, otherwise if code equals 1, means the original timestamp and record have been modified so it must be replaced by the returned values from timestamp (second return value) and record (third return value). If code equals 2, means the original timestamp is not modified and the record has been modified so it must be replaced by the returned values from record (third return value). The code 2 is supported from v1.4.3. |
timestamp | double | If code equals 1, the original record timestamp will be replaced with this new value. |
record | table | If code equals 1, the original record information will be replaced with this new value. Note that the record value must be a valid Lua table. This value can be an array of tables (i.e., array of objects in JSON format), and in that case the input record is effectively split into multiple records. (see below for more details) |
Key_Name | Specify field name in record to parse. |
Parser | Specify the parser name to interpret the field. Multiple Parser entries are allowed (one per line). |
Preserve_Key | Keep original | False |
Reserve_Data | Keep all other original fields in the parsed result. If false, all other original fields will be removed. | False |
| Append fields. This parameter needs a key/value pair. |
| If the key is matched, that field is removed. You can this or |
| If the key isn't matched, that field is removed. You can this or |
| An alias of |
| If set, the plugin appends Uuid to each record. The value assigned becomes the key in the map. |
The stdout filter plugin allows printing to the standard output the data flowed through the filter plugin, which can be very useful while debugging.
The plugin has no configuration parameters, is very simple to use.
We have specified to gather CPU usage metrics and print them out in a human-readable way when they flow through the stdout plugin.
Buffer_Size | 32k |
Kube_URL | API Server end-point |
Kube_CA_File | CA certificate file | /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt |
Kube_CA_Path | Absolute path to scan for certificate files |
Kube_Token_File | Token file | /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token |
Kube_Tag_Prefix | When the source records comes from Tail input plugin, this option allows to specify what's the prefix used in Tail configuration. | kube.var.log.containers. |
Merge_Log | When enabled, it checks if the | Off |
Merge_Log_Key | When |
Merge_Log_Trim | When | On |
Merge_Parser | Optional parser name to specify how to parse the data contained in the log key. Recommended use is for developers or testing only. |
Keep_Log | When | On |
tls.debug | Debug level between 0 (nothing) and 4 (every detail). | -1 |
tls.verify | When enabled, turns on certificate validation when connecting to the Kubernetes API server. | On |
tls.verify_hostname | When enabled, turns on hostname validation for certificates | Off |
Use_Journal | When enabled, the filter reads logs coming in Journald format. | Off |
Cache_Use_Docker_Id | When enabled, metadata will be fetched from K8s when docker_id is changed. | Off |
Regex_Parser |
K8S-Logging.Parser | Allow Kubernetes Pods to suggest a pre-defined Parser (read more about it in Kubernetes Annotations section) | Off |
K8S-Logging.Exclude | Allow Kubernetes Pods to exclude their logs from the log processor (read more about it in Kubernetes Annotations section). | Off |
Labels | Include Kubernetes pod resource labels in the extra metadata. | On |
Annotations | Include Kubernetes pod resource annotations in the extra metadata. | On |
Kube_meta_preload_cache_dir | If set, Kubernetes meta-data can be cached/pre-loaded from files in JSON format in this directory, named as namespace-pod.meta |
Dummy_Meta | If set, use dummy-meta data (for test/dev purposes) | Off |
DNS_Retries | DNS lookup retries N times until the network start working | 6 |
DNS_Wait_Time | DNS lookup interval between network status checks | 30 |
Use_Kubelet | Off |
Kubelet_Port | kubelet port using for HTTP request, this only works when | 10250 |
Kubelet_Host | kubelet host using for HTTP request, this only works when | 127.0.0.1 |
Kube_Meta_Cache_TTL | configurable TTL for K8s cached pod metadata. By default, it is set to 0 which means TTL for cache entries is disabled and cache entries are evicted at random when capacity is reached. In order to enable this option, you should set the number to a time interval. For example, set this value to 60 or 60s and cache entries which have been created more than 60s will be evicted. | 0 |
Kube_Token_TTL | configurable 'time to live' for the K8s token. By default, it is set to 600 seconds. After this time, the token is reloaded from Kube_Token_File or the Kube_Token_Command. | 600 |
Kube_Token_Command | Command to get Kubernetes authorization token. By default, it will be |
Kube_Meta_Namespace_Cache_TTL | configurable TTL for K8s cached namespace metadata. By default, it is set to 900 which means a 15min TTL for namespace cache entries. Setting this to 0 will mean entries are evicted at random once the cache is full. | 900 |
Namespace_Labels | Off |
Namespace_Annotations | Off |
Namespace_Metadata_Only | Off |
The Nest Filter plugin lets you operate on or with nested data. Its modes of operation are:
nest - Take a set of records and place them in a map.
lift - Take a map by key and lift its records up.
nestAs an example using JSON notation, to nest keys matching the Wildcard value Key* under a new key NestKey the transformation becomes:
Input:
Output:
liftAs an example using JSON notation, to lift keys nested under the Nested_under value NestKey* the transformation becomes:
Input:
Output:
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
To start filtering records, run the filter from the command line or through the configuration file. The following example invokes the Memory Usage Input Plugin, which outputs the following:
Using command line mode requires quotes to parse the wildcard properly. The use of a configuration file is recommended.
The following command loads the mem plugin. Then the nest filter matches the wildcard rule to the keys and nests the keys matching Mem.* under the new key NEST.
The output of both the command line and configuration invocations should be identical and result in the following output.
This example nests all Mem.* and Swap.* items under the Stats key and then reverses these actions with a lift operation. The output appears unchanged.
This example takes the keys starting with Mem.* and nests them under LAYER1, which is then nested under LAYER2, which is nested under LAYER3.
This example uses the 3-level deep nesting of Example 2 and applies the lift filter three times to reverse the operations. The end result is that all records are at the top level, without nesting, again. One prefix is added for each level that's lifted.
tag | Defines the tag for the generated metrics record | Yes |
metric_mode | Defines the mode for the metric. Valid values are [ | Yes |
metric_name | Sets the name of the metric. | Yes |
metric_description | Sets a help text for the metric. | Yes |
|
bucket | Defines a bucket for | Yes, for mode | e.g. 0.75 |
add_label | Add a custom label NAME and set the value to the value of KEY |
label_field | Includes a record field as label dimension in the metric. |
value_field | Specify the record field that holds a numerical value | Yes, for modes [ |
kubernetes_mode |
|
Regex | Include records in which the content of KEY matches the regular expression. | KEY REGEX |
Exclude | Exclude records in which the content of KEY matches the regular expression. | KEY REGEX |
Flush_Interval_Sec | The interval for metrics emission, in seconds. If Flush_Interval_Sec and Flush_Interval_Nsec are either both unset or both set to |
Flush_Interval_Nsec | The interval for metrics emission, in nanoseconds. This parameter works in conjunction with Flush_Interval_Sec. Default value: |
script | Path to the Lua script that will be used. This can be a relative path against the main configuration file. |
call | Lua function name that will be triggered to do filtering. It's assumed that the function is declared inside the script parameter defined above. |
type_int_key | If these keys are matched, the fields are converted to integer. If more than one key, delimit by space. Note that starting from Fluent Bit v1.6 integer data types are preserved and not converted to double as in previous versions. |
type_array_key | If these keys are matched, the fields are handled as array. If more than one key, delimit by space. It is useful the array can be empty. |
protected_mode | If enabled, Lua script will be executed in protected mode. It prevents Fluent Bit from crashing when invalid Lua script is executed or the triggered Lua function throws exceptions. Default is true. |
time_as_table | By default when the Lua script is invoked, the record timestamp is passed as a floating number which might lead to precision loss when it is converted back. If you desire timestamp precision, enabling this option will pass the timestamp as a Lua table with keys |
code | Inline LUA code instead of loading from a path via |
enable_flb_null | If enabled, null will be converted to flb_null in Lua. It is useful to prevent removing key/value since nil is a special value to remove key value from map in Lua. Default is false. |
The Sysinfo Filter plugin allows to append system information like fluent-bit version or hostname.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Supported platform |
|---|---|---|
Some properties are supported by specific platform.
In order to start filtering records, you can run the filter from the command line or through the configuration file.
The following configuration file is to append fluent-bit version and OS name.
You can also run the filter from command line.
The output will be
The Nightfall filter scans logs for sensitive data and redacts the sensitive portions. This filter supports scanning for various sensitive information, ranging from API keys and personally identifiable information(PII) to custom regexes you define. You can configure what to scan for in the Nightfall Dashboard.
This filter is not enabled by default in 1.9.0 due to a typo. It must be enabled by setting flag
-DFLB_FILTER_NIGHTFALL=ONwhen building. In 1.9.1 and above this is fixed.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
Powerful and flexible routing
Tags are what makes routing possible. Tags are set in the configuration of the Input definitions where the records are generated, but there are certain scenarios where might be useful to modify the Tag in the pipeline so we can perform more advanced and flexible routing.
The rewrite_tag filter, allows to re-emit a record under a new Tag. Once a record has been re-emitted, the original record can be preserved or discarded.
The way it works is defining rules that matches specific record key content against a regular expression, if a match exists, a new record with the defined Tag will be emitted, entering from the beginning of the pipeline. Multiple rules can be specified and they are processed in order until one of them matches.
The new Tag to define can be composed by:
Alphabet characters & Numbers
Original Tag string or part of it
Regular Expressions groups capture
Any key or sub-key of the processed record
Environment variables
The rewrite_tag filter supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
A rule aims to define matching criteria and specify how to create a new Tag for a record. You can define one or multiple rules in the same configuration section. The rules have the following format:
The key represents the name of the record key that holds the value that we want to use to match our regular expression. A key name is specified and prefixed with a $. Consider the following structured record (formatted for readability):
If we wanted to match against the value of the key name we must use $name. The key selector is flexible enough to allow to match nested levels of sub-maps from the structure. If we wanted to check the value of the nested key s2 we can do it specifying $ss['s1']['s2'], for short:
$name = "abc-123"
$ss['s1']['s2'] = "flb"
Note that a key must point to a value that contains a string, it's not valid for numbers, booleans, maps or arrays.
Using a simple regular expression we can specify a matching pattern to use against the value of the key specified above, also we can take advantage of group capturing to create custom placeholder values.
If we wanted to match any record that it $name contains a value of the format string-number like the example provided above, we might use:
Note that in our example we are using parentheses, this teams that we are specifying groups of data. If the pattern matches the value a placeholder will be created that can be consumed by the NEW_TAG section.
If $name equals abc-123 , then the following placeholders will be created:
$0 = "abc-123"
$1 = "abc"
$2 = "123"
If the Regular expression do not matches an incoming record, the rule will be skipped and the next rule (if any) will be processed.
If a regular expression has matched the value of the defined key in the rule, we are ready to compose a new Tag for that specific record. The tag is a concatenated string that can contain any of the following characters: a-z,A-Z, 0-9 and .-,.
A Tag can take any string value from the matching record, the original tag it self, environment variable or general placeholder.
Consider the following incoming data on the rule:
Tag = aa.bb.cc
Record = {"name": "abc-123", "ss": {"s1": {"s2": "flb"}}}
Environment variable $HOSTNAME = fluent
With such information we could create a very custom Tag for our record like the following:
the expected Tag to generated will be:
We make use of placeholders, record content and environment variables.
If a rule matches a rule the filter will emit a copy of the record with the new defined Tag. The property keep takes a boolean value to define if the original record with the old Tag must be preserved and continue in the pipeline or just be discarded.
You can use true or false to decide the expected behavior. There is no default value and this is a mandatory field in the rule.
The following configuration example will emit a dummy (hand-crafted) record, the filter will rewrite the tag, discard the old record and print the new record to the standard output interface:
The original tag test_tag will be rewritten as from.test_tag.new.fluent.bit.out:
As described in the Monitoring section, every component of the pipeline of Fluent Bit exposes metrics. The basic metrics exposed by this filter are drop_records and add_records, they summarize the total of dropped records from the incoming data chunk or the new records added.
Since rewrite_tag emit new records that goes through the beginning of the pipeline, it exposes an additional metric called emit_records that summarize the total number of emitted records.
Using the configuration provided above, if we query the metrics exposed in the HTTP interface we will see the following:
Command:
Metrics output:
The dummy input generated two records, the filter dropped two from the chunks and emitted two new ones under a different Tag.
The records generated are handled by the internal Emitter, so the new records are summarized in the Emitter metrics, take a look at the entry called emitter_for_rewrite_tag.0.
The Emitter is an internal Fluent Bit plugin that allows other components of the pipeline to emit custom records. On this case rewrite_tag creates an Emitter instance to use it exclusively to emit records, on that way we can have a granular control of who is emitting what.
The Emitter name in the metrics can be changed setting up the Emitter_Name configuration property described above.
Concatenate Multiline or Stack trace log messages. Available on Fluent Bit >= v1.8.2.
The Multiline Filter helps to concatenate messages that originally belong to one context but were split across multiple records or log lines. Common examples are stack traces or applications that print logs in multiple lines.
As part of the built-in functionality, without major configuration effort, you can enable one of ours built-in parsers with auto detection and multi format support:
go
python
ruby
java (Google Cloud Platform Java stacktrace format)
Some comments about this filter:
The usage of this filter depends on a previous configuration of a Multiline Parser definition.
If you wish to concatenate messages read from a log file, it is highly recommended to use the multiline support in the Tail plugin itself. This is because performing concatenation while reading the log file is more performant. Concatenating messages originally split by Docker or CRI container engines, is supported in the Tail plugin.
This filter only performs buffering that persists across different Chunks when Buffer is enabled. Otherwise, the filter will process one Chunk at a time and is not suitable for most inputs which might send multiline messages in separate chunks.
When buffering is enabled, the filter does not immediately emit messages it receives. It uses the in_emitter plugin, same as the Rewrite Tag Filter, and emits messages once they are fully concatenated, or a timeout is reached.
Since concatenated records are re-emitted to the head of the Fluent Bit log pipeline, you can not configure multiple multiline filter definitions that match the same tags. This will cause an infinite loop in the Fluent Bit pipeline; to use multiple parsers on the same logs, configure a single filter definitions with a comma separated list of parsers for multiline.parser. For more, see issue #5235.
Secondly, for the same reason, the multiline filter should be the first filter. Logs will be re-emitted by the multiline filter to the head of the pipeline- the filter will ignore its own re-emitted records, but other filters won't. If there are filters before the multiline filter, they will be applied twice.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
The following example aims to parse a log file called test.log that contains some full lines, a custom Java stacktrace and a Go stacktrace.
The following example files can be located at: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/tree/master/documentation/examples/multiline/filter_multiline
Example files content:
This is the primary Fluent Bit configuration file. It includes the parsers_multiline.conf and tails the file test.log by applying the multiline parsers multiline-regex-test and go. Then it sends the processing to the standard output.
This second file defines a multiline parser for the example. Note that a second multiline parser called go is used in fluent-bit.conf, but this one is a built-in parser.
An example file with multiline and multiformat content:
By running Fluent Bit with the given configuration file you will obtain:
The lines that did not match a pattern are not considered as part of the multiline message, while the ones that matched the rules were concatenated properly.
When Fluent Bit is consuming logs from a container runtime, such as docker, these logs will be split above a certain limit, usually 16KB. If your application emits a 100K log line, it will be split into 7 partial messages. If you are using the Fluentd Docker Log Driver to send the logs to Fluent Bit, they might look like this:
Fluent Bit can re-combine these logs that were split by the runtime and remove the partial message fields. The filter example below is for this use case.
The two options for mode are mutually exclusive in the filter. If you set the mode to partial_message then the multiline.parser option is not allowed.
The Type Converter Filter plugin allows to convert data type and append new key value pair.
This plugin is useful in combination with plugins which expect incoming string value. e.g. ,
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters. It needs four parameters.
<config_parameter> <src_key_name> <dst_key_name> <dst_data_type>
dst_data_type allows int, uint, float and string.
e.g. int_key id id_str string
| Key | Description |
|---|
In order to start filtering records, you can run the filter from the command line or through the configuration file.
This is a sample in_mem record to filter.
The plugin outputs uint values and filter_type_converter converts them into string type.
You can also run the filter from command line.
The output will be
Use Wasm programs as a filter
Wasm Filter allows you to modify the incoming records using technology.
Due to the necessity to have a flexible filtering mechanism, it is now possible to extend Fluent Bit capabilities by writing custom filters using built Wasm programs and its runtime. A Wasm-based filter takes two steps:
(Optional) Compiled as AOT (Ahead Of Time) objects to optimize Wasm execution pipeline
Configure the Filter in the main configuration
Prepare a Wasm program that will be used by the Filter
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description |
|---|
Here is a configuration example.
The Throttle Filter plugin sets the average Rate of messages per Interval, based on leaky bucket and sliding window algorithm. In case of overflood, it will leak within certain rate.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Value Format | Description |
|---|
Lets imagine we have configured:
we received 1 message first second, 3 messages 2nd, and 5 3rd. As you can see, disregard that Window is actually 5, we use "slow" start to prevent overflooding during the startup.
But as soon as we reached Window size * Interval, we will have true sliding window with aggregation over complete window.
When we have average over window is more than Rate, we will start dropping messages, so that
will become:
As you can see, last pane of the window was overwritten and 1 message was dropped.
You might noticed possibility to configure Interval of the Window shift. It is counter intuitive, but there is a difference between two examples above:
and
Even though both examples will allow maximum Rate of 60 messages per minute, first example may get all 60 messages within first second, and will drop all the rest for the entire minute:
While the second example will not allow more than 1 message per second every second, making output rate more smooth:
It may drop some data if the rate is ragged. I would recommend to use bigger interval and rate for streams of rare but important events, while keep Window bigger and Interval small for constantly intensive inputs.
Note: It's suggested to use a configuration file.
The following command will load the tail plugin and read the content of lines.txt file. Then the throttle filter will apply a rate limit and only pass the records which are read below the certain rate:
The example above will pass 1000 messages per second in average over 300 seconds.
Tensorflow Filter allows running Machine Learning inference tasks on the records of data coming from input plugins or stream processor. This filter uses as the inference engine, and requires Tensorflow Lite shared library to be present during build and at runtime.
Tensorflow Lite is a lightweight open-source deep learning framework that is used for mobile and IoT applications. Tensorflow Lite only handles inference (not training), therefore, it loads pre-trained models (.tflite files) that are converted into Tensorflow Lite format (FlatBuffer). You can read more on converting Tensorflow models
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|
Clone , install bazel package manager, and run the following command in order to create the shared library:
The script creates the shared library bazel-bin/tensorflow/lite/c/libtensorflowlite_c.so. You need to copy the library to a location (such as /usr/lib) that can be used by Fluent Bit.
Tensorflow filter plugin is disabled by default. You need to build Fluent Bit with Tensorflow plugin enabled. In addition, it requires access to Tensorflow Lite header files to compile. Therefore, you also need to pass the address of the Tensorflow source code on your machine to the :
If Tensorflow plugin initializes correctly, it reports successful creation of the interpreter, and prints a summary of model's input/output types and dimensions.
Currently supports single-input models
Uses Tensorflow 2.3 header files
Set the buffer size for HTTP client when reading responses from Kubernetes API server. The value must be according to the specification. A value of 0 results in no limit, and the buffer will expand as-needed. Note that if pod specifications exceed the buffer limit, the API response will be discarded when retrieving metadata, and some kubernetes metadata will fail to be injected to the logs.
Set an alternative Parser to process record Tag and extract pod_name, namespace_name, container_name and docker_id. The parser must be registered in a (refer to parser filter-kube-test as an example).
this is an optional feature flag to get metadata information from kubelet instead of calling Kube Server API to enhance the log. This could mitigate the . If used when any fields are enabled, Kubelet will be used to fetch pod data, but namespace meta will still be fetched using the Kube_URL settings.
Include Kubernetes namespace resource labels in the extra metadata. See
Include Kubernetes namespace resource annotations in the extra metadata. See
Include Kubernetes namespace metadata only and no pod metadata. If this is set, the values of Labels and Annotations are ignored. See
| Key | Value format | Operation | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Name of record key. Supports notation for nested fields.
Name of record key. Supports notation for nested fields.
If enabled, it will automatically put pod_id, pod_name, namespace_name, docker_id and container_name into the metric as labels. This option is intended to be used in combination with the filter plugin, which fills those fields.
fluentbit_version_key
Specify the key name for fluent-bit version.
All
os_name_key
Specify the key name for os name. e.g. linux, win64 or macos.
All
hostname_key
Specify the key name for hostname.
All
os_version_key
Specify the key name for os version. It is not supported on some platforms.
Linux
kernel_version_key
Specify the key name for kernel version. It is not supported on some platforms.
Linux
nightfall_api_key
The Nightfall API key to scan your logs with, obtainable from the Nightfall Dashboard
policy_id
The Nightfall dev platform policy to scan your logs with, configurable in the Nightfall Dashboard.
sampling_rate
The rate controlling how much of your logs you wish to be scanned, must be a float between (0,1]. 1 means all logs will be scanned. Useful for avoiding rate limits in conjunction with Fluent Bit's match rule.
1
tls.debug
Debug level between 0 (nothing) and 4 (every detail).
0
tls.verify
When enabled, turns on certificate validation when connecting to the Nightfall API.
true
tls.ca_path
Absolute path to root certificates, required if tls.verify is true.
Rule
Defines the matching criteria and the format of the Tag for the matching record. The Rule format have four components: KEY REGEX NEW_TAG KEEP. For more specific details of the Rule format and it composition read the next section.
Emitter_Name
When the filter emits a record under the new Tag, there is an internal emitter plugin that takes care of the job. Since this emitter expose metrics as any other component of the pipeline, you can use this property to configure an optional name for it.
Emitter_Storage.type
Define a buffering mechanism for the new records created. Note these records are part of the emitter plugin. This option support the values memory (default) or filesystem. If the destination for the new records generated might face backpressure due to latency or slow network, we strongly recommend enabling the filesystem mode.
Emitter_Mem_Buf_Limit
Set a limit on the amount of memory the tag rewrite emitter can consume if the outputs provide backpressure. The default for this limit is 10M. The pipeline will pause once the buffer exceeds the value of this setting. For example, if the value is set to 10M then the pipeline will pause if the buffer exceeds 10M. The pipeline will remain paused until the output drains the buffer below the 10M limit.
multiline.parser
Specify one or multiple Multiline Parser definitions to apply to the content. You can specify multiple multiline parsers to detect different formats by separating them with a comma.
multiline.key_content
Key name that holds the content to process. Note that a Multiline Parser definition can already specify the key_content to use, but this option allows to overwrite that value for the purpose of the filter.
mode
Mode can be parser for regex concat, or partial_message to concat split docker logs.
buffer
Enable buffered mode. In buffered mode, the filter can concatenate multilines from inputs that ingest records one by one (ex: Forward), rather than in chunks, re-emitting them into the beggining of the pipeline (with the same tag) using the in_emitter instance. With buffer off, this filter will not work with most inputs, except tail.
flush_ms
Flush time for pending multiline records. Defaults to 2000.
emitter_name
Name for the emitter input instance which re-emits the completed records at the beginning of the pipeline.
emitter_storage.type
The storage type for the emitter input instance. This option supports the values memory (default) and filesystem.
emitter_mem_buf_limit
Set a limit on the amount of memory the emitter can consume if the outputs provide backpressure. The default for this limit is 10M. The pipeline will pause once the buffer exceeds the value of this setting. For example, if the value is set to 10M then the pipeline will pause if the buffer exceeds 10M. The pipeline will remain paused until the output drains the buffer below the 10M limit.
Operation
ENUM [nest or lift]
Select the operation nest or lift
Wildcard
FIELD WILDCARD
nest
Nest records which field matches the wildcard
Nest_under
FIELD STRING
nest
Nest records matching the Wildcard under this key
Nested_under
FIELD STRING
lift
Lift records nested under the Nested_under key
Add_prefix
FIELD STRING
ANY
Prefix affected keys with this string
Remove_prefix
FIELD STRING
ANY
Remove prefix from affected keys if it matches this string
Rate | Integer | Amount of messages for the time. |
Window | Integer | Amount of intervals to calculate average over. Default 5. |
Interval | String | Time interval, expressed in "sleep" format. e.g 3s, 1.5m, 0.5h etc |
Print_Status | Bool | Whether to print status messages with current rate and the limits to information logs |
input_field | Specify the name of the field in the record to apply inference on. |
model_file | Path to the model file ( |
include_input_fields | Include all input filed in filter's output | True |
normalization_value | Divide input values to normalization_value |
Wasm_Path | Path to the built Wasm program that will be used. This can be a relative path against the main configuration file. |
Event_Format | Define event format to interact with Wasm programs: msgpack or json. Default: json |
Function_Name | Wasm function name that will be triggered to do filtering. It's assumed that the function is built inside the Wasm program specified above. |
Accessible_Paths | Specify the whitelist of paths to be able to access paths from WASM programs. |
Wasm_Heap_Size |
Wasm_Stack_Size |
int_key | This parameter is for integer source. |
uint_key | This parameter is for unsigned integer source. |
float_key | This parameter is for float source. |
str_key | This parameter is for string source. |
Size of the heap size of Wasm execution. Review for allowed values.
Size of the stack size of Wasm execution. Review for allowed values.
