Range filter plugin
editRange filter plugin
edit- Plugin version: v3.0.3
- Released on: 2017-11-07
- Changelog
Installation
editFor plugins not bundled by default, it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-filter-range
. See Working with plugins for more details.
Getting Help
editFor 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
editThis filter is used to check that certain fields are within expected size/length ranges. Supported types are numbers and strings. Numbers are checked to be within numeric value range. Strings are checked to be within string length range. More than one range can be specified for same fieldname, actions will be applied incrementally. When field value is within a specified range an action will be taken. Supported actions are drop event, add tag, or add field with specified value.
Example use cases are for histogram-like tagging of events or for finding anomaly values in fields or too big events that should be dropped.
Range Filter Configuration Options
editThis 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.
negate
edit- Value type is boolean
-
Default value is
false
Negate the range match logic, events should be outsize of the specified range to match.
ranges
edit- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
An array of field, min, max, action tuples. Example:
filter { range { ranges => [ "message", 0, 10, "tag:short", "message", 11, 100, "tag:medium", "message", 101, 1000, "tag:long", "message", 1001, 1e1000, "drop", "duration", 0, 100, "field:latency:fast", "duration", 101, 200, "field:latency:normal", "duration", 201, 1000, "field:latency:slow", "duration", 1001, 1e1000, "field:latency:outlier", "requests", 0, 10, "tag:too_few_%{host}_requests" ] } }
Supported actions are drop tag or field with specified value.
Added tag names and field names and field values can have %{dynamic}
values.
Common Options
editThe following configuration options are supported by all filter plugins:
Setting | Input type | Required |
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No |
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No |
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add_field
edit- 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 { range { add_field => { "foo_%{somefield}" => "Hello world, from %{host}" } } }
# You can also add multiple fields at once: filter { range { 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
edit- 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 { range { add_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ] } }
# You can also add multiple tags at once: filter { range { 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
edit- 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
edit- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
Add a unique ID
to the plugin configuration. If no ID is specified, Logstash will generate one.
It is strongly recommended to set this ID in your configuration. This is particularly useful
when you have two or more plugins of the same type, for example, if you have 2 range filters.
Adding a named ID in this case will help in monitoring Logstash when using the monitoring APIs.
filter { range { id => "ABC" } }
periodic_flush
edit- Value type is boolean
-
Default value is
false
Call the filter flush method at regular interval. Optional.
remove_field
edit- 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 { range { remove_field => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ] } }
# You can also remove multiple fields at once: filter { range { 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
edit- 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 { range { remove_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ] } }
# You can also remove multiple tags at once: filter { range { 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.