Csv filter plugin

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  • Plugin version: v3.0.4
  • Released on: 2017-06-23
  • Changelog

Getting Help

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For questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github. For the list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Elastic Support Matrix.

Description

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The CSV filter takes an event field containing CSV data, parses it, and stores it as individual fields (can optionally specify the names). This filter can also parse data with any separator, not just commas.

Csv Filter Configuration Options

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This plugin supports the following configuration options plus the Common Options described later.

Also see Common Options for a list of options supported by all filter plugins.

 

autodetect_column_names

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is false

Define whether column names should be auto-detected from the header column or not. Defaults to false.

autogenerate_column_names

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is true

Define whether column names should autogenerated or not. Defaults to true. If set to false, columns not having a header specified will not be parsed.

columns

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  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

Define a list of column names (in the order they appear in the CSV, as if it were a header line). If columns is not configured, or there are not enough columns specified, the default column names are "column1", "column2", etc. In the case that there are more columns in the data than specified in this column list, extra columns will be auto-numbered: (e.g. "user_defined_1", "user_defined_2", "column3", "column4", etc.)

convert

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  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

Define a set of datatype conversions to be applied to columns. Possible conversions are integer, float, date, date_time, boolean

Example:

    filter {
      csv {
        convert => {
          "column1" => "integer"
          "column2" => "boolean"
        }
      }
    }

quote_char

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "\""

Define the character used to quote CSV fields. If this is not specified the default is a double quote ". Optional.

separator

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is ","

Define the column separator value. If this is not specified, the default is a comma ,. If you want to define a tabulation as a separator, you need to set the value to the actual tab character and not \t. Optional.

skip_empty_columns

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is false

Define whether empty columns should be skipped. Defaults to false. If set to true, columns containing no value will not get set.

source

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "message"

The CSV data in the value of the source field will be expanded into a data structure.

target

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  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Define target field for placing the data. Defaults to writing to the root of the event.

Common Options

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The following configuration options are supported by all filter plugins:

add_field

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  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

If this filter is successful, add any arbitrary fields to this event. Field names can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field}.

Example:

filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    add_field => { "foo_%{somefield}" => "Hello world, from %{host}" }
  }
}
# You can also add multiple fields at once:
filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    add_field => {
      "foo_%{somefield}" => "Hello world, from %{host}"
      "new_field" => "new_static_value"
    }
  }
}

If the event has field "somefield" == "hello" this filter, on success, would add field foo_hello if it is present, with the value above and the %{host} piece replaced with that value from the event. The second example would also add a hardcoded field.

add_tag

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  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

If this filter is successful, add arbitrary tags to the event. Tags can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field} syntax.

Example:

filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    add_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ]
  }
}
# You can also add multiple tags at once:
filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    add_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}", "taggedy_tag"]
  }
}

If the event has field "somefield" == "hello" this filter, on success, would add a tag foo_hello (and the second example would of course add a taggedy_tag tag).

enable_metric

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is true

Disable or enable metric logging for this specific plugin instance by default we record all the metrics we can, but you can disable metrics collection for a specific plugin.

  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Add a unique ID to the plugin instance, this ID is used for tracking information for a specific configuration of the plugin.

output {
 stdout {
   id => "ABC"
 }
}

If you don’t explicitely set this variable Logstash will generate a unique name.

periodic_flush

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is false

Call the filter flush method at regular interval. Optional.

remove_field

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  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

If this filter is successful, remove arbitrary fields from this event. Fields names can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field} Example:

filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    remove_field => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ]
  }
}
# You can also remove multiple fields at once:
filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    remove_field => [ "foo_%{somefield}", "my_extraneous_field" ]
  }
}

If the event has field "somefield" == "hello" this filter, on success, would remove the field with name foo_hello if it is present. The second example would remove an additional, non-dynamic field.

remove_tag

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  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

If this filter is successful, remove arbitrary tags from the event. Tags can be dynamic and include parts of the event using the %{field} syntax.

Example:

filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    remove_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ]
  }
}
# You can also remove multiple tags at once:
filter {
  PLUGIN_NAME {
    remove_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}", "sad_unwanted_tag"]
  }
}

If the event has field "somefield" == "hello" this filter, on success, would remove the tag foo_hello if it is present. The second example would remove a sad, unwanted tag as well.