webhdfs
editwebhdfs
editThis is a community-maintained plugin! It does not ship with Logstash by default, but it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-output-webhdfs
.
This plugin sends Logstash events into files in HDFS via the webhdfs REST API.
Dependencies
editThis plugin has no dependency on jars from hadoop, thus reducing configuration and compatibility problems. It uses the webhdfs gem from Kazuki Ohta and TAGOMORI Satoshi (@see: https://github.com/kzk/webhdfs). Optional dependencies are zlib and snappy gem if you use the compression functionality.
Operational Notes
editIf you get an error like:
Max write retries reached. Exception: initialize: name or service not known {:level=>:error}
make sure that the hostname of your namenode is resolvable on the host running Logstash. When creating/appending
to a file, webhdfs somtime sends a 307 TEMPORARY_REDIRECT
with the HOSTNAME
of the machine its running on.
Usage
editThis is an example of Logstash config:
input { ... } filter { ... } output { webhdfs { server => "127.0.0.1:50070" # (required) path => "/user/logstash/dt=%{+YYYY-MM-dd}/logstash-%{+HH}.log" # (required) user => "hue" # (required) } }
Synopsis
editThis plugin supports the following configuration options:
Required configuration options:
webhdfs { host => ... path => ... user => ... }
Available configuration options:
Details
edit
codec
edit- Value type is codec
-
Default value is
"line"
The codec used for output data. Output codecs are a convenient method for encoding your data before it leaves the output, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.
compression
edit-
Value can be any of:
none
,snappy
,gzip
-
Default value is
"none"
Compress output. One of [none, snappy, gzip]
exclude_tags
(DEPRECATED)
edit- DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
Only handle events without any of these tags. Optional.
flush_size
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
500
Sending data to webhdfs if event count is above, even if store_interval_in_secs
is not reached.
host
edit- This is a required setting.
- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
The server name for webhdfs/httpfs connections.
idle_flush_time
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
1
Sending data to webhdfs in x seconds intervals.
message_format
edit- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
The format to use when writing events to the file. This value
supports any string and can include %{name}
and other dynamic
strings.
If this setting is omitted, the full json representation of the event will be written as a single line.
path
edit- This is a required setting.
- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
The path to the file to write to. Event fields can be used here,
as well as date fields in the joda time format, e.g.:
/user/logstash/dt=%{+YYYY-MM-dd}/%{@source_host}-%{+HH}.log
port
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
50070
The server port for webhdfs/httpfs connections.
retry_interval
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
0.5
How long should we wait between retries.
retry_known_errors
edit- Value type is boolean
-
Default value is
true
Retry some known webhdfs errors. These may be caused by race conditions when appending to same file, etc.
retry_times
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
5
How many times should we retry. If retry_times is exceeded, an error will be logged and the event will be discarded.
snappy_bufsize
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
32768
Set snappy chunksize. Only neccessary for stream format. Defaults to 32k. Max is 65536 @see http://code.google.com/p/snappy/source/browse/trunk/framing_format.txt
snappy_format
edit-
Value can be any of:
stream
,file
-
Default value is
"stream"
Set snappy format. One of "stream", "file". Set to stream to be hive compatible.
tags
(DEPRECATED)
edit- DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
Only handle events with all of these tags. Optional.
type
(DEPRECATED)
edit- DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
- Value type is string
-
Default value is
""
The type to act on. If a type is given, then this output will only
act on messages with the same type. See any input plugin’s type
attribute for more.
Optional.
use_httpfs
edit- Value type is boolean
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Default value is
false
Use httpfs mode if set to true, else webhdfs.