Influxdb output plugin

Allow the override of the time column in the event?

By default any column with a name of time will be ignored and the time will be determined by the value of @timestamp.

Setting this to true allows you to explicitly set the time column yourself

Note: time must be an epoch value in either seconds, milliseconds or microseconds

Allow value coercion

this will attempt to convert data point values to the appropriate type before posting otherwise sprintf-filtered numeric values could get sent as strings format is {'column_name' => 'datatype'}

currently supported datatypes are integer and float

Hash of key/value pairs representing data points to send to the named database Example: {'column1' => 'value1', 'column2' => 'value2'}

Events for the same measurement will be batched together where possible Both keys and values support sprintf formatting

The database to write - supports sprintf formatting

An array containing the names of fields from the event to exclude from the data points

Events, in general, contain keys "@version" and "@timestamp". Other plugins may add others that you’ll want to exclude (such as "command" from the exec plugin).

This only applies when use_event_fields_for_data_points is true.

This setting controls how many events will be buffered before sending a batch of events. Note that these are only batched for the same measurement

The hostname or IP address to reach your InfluxDB instance

The amount of time since last flush before a flush is forced.

This setting helps ensure slow event rates don’t get stuck in Logstash. For example, if your flush_size is 100, and you have received 10 events, and it has been more than idle_flush_time seconds since the last flush, logstash will flush those 10 events automatically.

This helps keep both fast and slow log streams moving along in near-real-time.

The amount of time in seconds to delay the initial retry on connection failure.

The delay will increase exponentially for each retry attempt (up to max_retries).

The number of time to retry recoverable errors before dropping the events.

A value of -1 will cause the plugin to retry indefinately. A value of 0 will cause the plugin to never retry. Otherwise it will retry up to the specified mumber of times.

Measurement name - supports sprintf formatting

The password for the user who access to the named database

The port for InfluxDB

The retention policy to use

An array containing the names of fields to send to Influxdb as tags instead of fields. Influxdb 0.9 convention is that values that do not change every request should be considered metadata and given as tags.

Enable SSL/TLS secured communication to InfluxDB

Set the level of precision of time

only useful when overriding the time value

Automatically use fields from the event as the data points sent to Influxdb

The user who has access to the named database

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.

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.

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 influxdb outputs. Adding a named ID in this case will help in monitoring Logstash when using the monitoring APIs.

output {
  influxdb {
    id => "my_plugin_id"
  }
}