I am trying to find a way in Fluent-bit config to tell/enforce ES to store plain json formatted logs (the log bit below that comes from docker stdout/stderror) in structured way - please see image at the bottom for better explanation. For example, apart from (or along with) storing the log as a plain json entry under log
field, I would like to store each property individually as shown in red.
The documentation for Filters and Parsers are really poor and not clear. On top of that the forward
input doesn't have a "parser" option. I tried json/docker/regex
parsers but no luck. My regex is here if I have to use regex. Currently using ES (7.1), Fluent-bit (1.1.3) and Kibana (7.1) - not Kubernetes.
If anyone can direct me to an example or give one I would be much appreciated.
Thanks
{
"_index": "hello",
"_type": "logs",
"_id": "T631e2sBChSKEuJw-HO4",
"_version": 1,
"_score": null,
"_source": {
"@timestamp": "2019-06-21T21:34:02.000Z",
"tag": "php",
"container_id": "53154cf4d4e8d7ecf31bdb6bc4a25fdf2f37156edc6b859ba0ddfa9c0ab1715b",
"container_name": "/hello_php_1",
"source": "stderr",
"log": "{\"time_local\":\"2019-06-21T21:34:02+0000\",\"client_ip\":\"-\",\"remote_addr\":\"192.168.192.3\",\"remote_user\":\"\",\"request\":\"GET / HTTP/1.1\",\"status\":\"200\",\"body_bytes_sent\":\"0\",\"request_time\":\"0.001\",\"http_referrer\":\"-\",\"http_user_agent\":\"curl/7.38.0\",\"request_id\":\"91835d61520d289952b7e9b8f658e64f\"}"
},
"fields": {
"@timestamp": [
"2019-06-21T21:34:02.000Z"
]
},
"sort": [
1561152842000
]
}
Thanks
conf
[SERVICE]
Flush 5
Daemon Off
Log_Level debug
Parsers_File parsers.conf
[INPUT]
Name forward
Listen 0.0.0.0
Port 24224
[OUTPUT]
Name es
Match hello_*
Host elasticsearch
Port 9200
Index hello
Type logs
Include_Tag_Key On
Tag_Key tag
Solution is as follows.
[SERVICE]
Flush 5
Daemon Off
Log_Level debug
Parsers_File parsers.conf
[INPUT]
Name forward
storage.type filesystem
Listen my_fluent_bit_service
Port 24224
[FILTER]
Name parser
Parser docker
Match hello_*
Key_Name log
Reserve_Data On
Preserve_Key On
[OUTPUT]
Name es
Host my_elasticsearch_service
Port 9200
Match hello_*
Index hello
Type logs
Include_Tag_Key On
Tag_Key tag
[PARSER]
Name docker
Format json
Time_Key time
Time_Format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%L
Time_Keep On
# Command | Decoder | Field | Optional Action
# =============|==================|=================
Decode_Field_As escaped_utf8 log do_next
Decode_Field_As json log