spring-bootdatadoglogstash-logback-encoder

How to define source-tag for datadog when sending logs agentless with logback from Spring Boot?


How can logback be configured to add tags,so that datadog can recognize the source?

I have the following logback.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE configuration>
<configuration>
    <springProperty scope="local" name="DATADOG_API_KEY" source="datadog.api-key" />
    <appender name="datadog" class="net.logstash.logback.appender.LogstashTcpSocketAppender">
        <destination>intake.logs.datadoghq.com:10514</destination>
        <keepAliveDuration>1 minute</keepAliveDuration>
        <includeCallerData>true</includeCallerData>
        <encoder class="net.logstash.logback.encoder.LogstashEncoder">
            <includeCallerData>true</includeCallerData>
            <includeTags>true</includeTags>
            <customFields>{"ddtags": "source:java"}</customFields>
            <prefix class="ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.LayoutWrappingEncoder">
                <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
                    <pattern>${DATADOG_API_KEY} %mdc{weJustNeedSthEmptyHereSoTheXMLParserWillKeepAWhitespace}</pattern>
                </layout>
            </prefix>
        </encoder>
    </appender>
    <root>
        <appender-ref ref="datadog"/>
    </root>
</configuration

Where the custom field ddtags is supposed to set tags for datadog.

The logs show up in datadog and everything works as expected, despite the source-tag. The log messages sent from my service show up with two tags in datadog: source:java and source:undefined:

tags as they show up in datadog

How do I get rid of the source:undefined tag so that datadog correctly recognizes the source?


Solution

  • Try this

    <encoder class="net.logstash.logback.encoder.LogstashEncoder">
            <customFields>
                {"service":"ServiceName","ddsource":"java"}
            </customFields>...
    </encoder>