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Metricize filter plugin

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Metricize filter plugin

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Plugin version: v3.0.1
Released on: 2017-06-23
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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 metricize filter takes complex events containing a number of metrics and splits these up into multiple events, each holding a single metric.

Example:

Assume the following filter configuration:

filter {
  metricize {
    metrics => [ "metric1", "metric2" ]
  }
}

Assuming the following event is passed in:

{
     type => "type A"
     metric1 => "value1"
     metric2 => "value2"
}

This will result in the following 2 events being generated in addition to the original event:

{                               {
    type => "type A"                type => "type A"
    metric => "metric1"             metric => "metric2"
    value => "value1"               value => "value2"
}                               }

Metricize Filter Configuration Options

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

Setting	Input type	Required
`drop_original_event`	boolean	No
`metric_field_name`	string	No
`metrics`	array	Yes
`value_field_name`	string	No

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

`drop_original_event`

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Value type is boolean
Default value is false

Flag indicating whether the original event should be dropped or not.

`metric_field_name`

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Value type is string
Default value is "metric"

Name of the field the metric name will be written to.

`metrics`

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This is a required setting.
Value type is array
There is no default value for this setting.

A new matrics event will be created for each metric field in this list. All fields in this list will be removed from generated events.

`value_field_name`

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Value type is string
Default value is "value"

Name of the field the metric value will be written to.

Common Options

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The following configuration options are supported by all filter plugins:

Setting	Input type	Required
`add_field`	hash	No
`add_tag`	array	No
`enable_metric`	boolean	No
`id`	string	No
`periodic_flush`	boolean	No
`remove_field`	array	No
`remove_tag`	array	No

`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.

`id`

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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.

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