Elastic S3 connector reference
editElastic S3 connector reference
editThe Elastic S3 connector is a connector for Amazon S3 data sources.
Availability and prerequisites
editThis connector is available as a connector client from the Python connectors framework. This connector client is compatible with Elastic versions 8.6.0+. To use this connector, satisfy all connector client requirements.
This connector is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Usage
editTo use this connector as a connector client, use the build a connector workflow. See Connector clients and frameworks.
For additional operations, see Usage.
S3 users will also need to:
Create an IAM identity
editUsers need to create an IAM identity to use this connector as a connector client. Refer to the AWS documentation.
The policy associated with the IAM identity must have the following AWS permissions:
-
ListAllMyBuckets
-
ListBucket
-
GetBucketLocation
-
GetObject
Set up AWS CLI
editUsers need to install the official AWS CLI tool to use this connector as a connector client.
Add the following values:
-
aws_access_key
(specifies the AWS identity to be used) -
aws_secret_key
-
region
Compatibility
editCurrently the connector does not support S3-compatible vendors.
Configuration
editWhen using the build a connector workflow, these fields will use the default configuration set in the connector source code. These configurable fields will be rendered with their respective labels in the Kibana UI. Once connected, you’ll be able to update these values in Kibana.
The following configuration fields are required to set up the connector:
-
buckets
-
List of S3 bucket names.
*
will fetch data from all buckets. Examples:-
testbucket, prodbucket
-
testbucket
-
*
-
-
read_timeout
-
The
read_timeout
for Amazon S3. Default value is90
. -
connect_timeout
-
Connection timeout for crawling S3.
Default value is
90
. -
max_attempts
-
Maximum retry attempts.
Default value is
5
. -
page_size
-
Page size for iterating bucket objects in Amazon S3.
Default value is
100
. -
enable_content_extraction
-
Whether the connector should extract file content from S3. Default value is
True
, the connector will try to extract file contents.If
enable_content_extraction=False
the connector will not attempt to download the content of files in your S3 buckets.Don’t confuse this with the "Deployment wide content extraction" setting in the Kibana UI. This deployment-wide setting toggles binary content extraction and is powered by ingest pipelines.
Sync rules
edit- Files bigger than 10 MB won’t be extracted.
- Permissions are not synced.
- Filtering rules are not available in the current version, because filtering is controlled by ingest pipelines.
End-to-end testing
editThe connector framework enables operators to run functional tests against a real data source. Refer to Connector testing for more details.
To execute a functional test for the Amazon S3 connector client, run the following command:
make ftest NAME=s3
By default, this will use a medium-sized dataset.
To make the test faster add the DATA_SIZE=small
argument:
make ftest NAME=s3 DATA_SIZE=small
Known issues
editThere are no known issues for this connector.
See Known issues for any issues affecting all connectors.
Troubleshooting
editSee Troubleshooting.
Security
editSee Security.
Framework and source
editThis connector is included in the Python connectors framework.
View the source code for this connector (branch 8.7, compatible with Elastic 8.7).