IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

« Boundary output plugin Cloudwatch output plugin »

› ›

Circonus output plugin

edit

Circonus output plugin

edit

Plugin version: v3.0.5
Released on: 2018-04-06
Changelog

For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.

Installation

edit

For plugins not bundled by default, it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-output-circonus. See Working with plugins for more details.

Getting Help

edit

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

edit

This output sends annotations to Circonus based on Logstash events.

Circonus Output Configuration Options

edit

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

Setting	Input type	Required
`annotation`	hash	Yes
`api_token`	string	Yes
`app_name`	string	Yes

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

`annotation`

edit

This is a required setting.
Value type is hash
Default value is {}

Annotations Registers an annotation with Circonus The only required field is title and description. start and stop will be set to the event timestamp. You can add any other optional annotation values as well. All values will be passed through event.sprintf

Example:

  ["title":"Logstash event", "description":"Logstash event for %{host}"]

  ["title":"Logstash event", "description":"Logstash event for %{host}", "parent_id", "1"]

`api_token`

edit

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

Your Circonus API Token

`app_name`

edit

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

Your Circonus App name This will be passed through event.sprintf so variables are allowed here:

Example: app_name => "%{myappname}"

Common Options

edit

The following configuration options are supported by all output plugins:

Setting	Input type	Required
`codec`	codec	No
`enable_metric`	boolean	No
`id`	string	No

`codec`

edit

Value type is codec
Default value is "plain"

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.

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

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

« Boundary output plugin Cloudwatch output plugin »