Configure the Redis output

The Redis output inserts the events into a Redis list or a Redis channel. This output plugin is compatible with the Redis input plugin for Logstash.

To use this output, edit the APM Server configuration file to disable the Elasticsearch output by commenting it out, and enable the Redis output by adding output.redis.

Example configuration:

output.redis:
  hosts: ["localhost"]
  password: "my_password"
  key: "apm-server"
  db: 0
  timeout: 5

APM Server uses the APM integration to set up and manage APM templates, policies, and pipelines. To confirm the integration is installed, APM Server polls either Elasticsearch or Kibana on startup. When using a non-Elasticsearch output, APM Server requires access to Kibana via the Kibana endpoint.

Example configuration:

apm-server:
  kibana:
    enabled: true
    host: "https://..."
    username: "elastic"
    password: "xxx"

This output is expected to work with all Redis versions between 3.2.4 and 5.0.8. Other versions might work as well, but are not supported.

You can specify the following output.redis options in the apm-server.yml config file:

The enabled config is a boolean setting to enable or disable the output. If set to false, the output is disabled.

The default value is true.

The list of Redis servers to connect to. If load balancing is enabled, the events are distributed to the servers in the list. If one server becomes unreachable, the events are distributed to the reachable servers only. You can define each Redis server by specifying HOST or HOST:PORT. For example: "192.15.3.2" or "test.redis.io:12345". If you don’t specify a port number, the value configured by port is used. Configure each Redis server with an IP:PORT pair or with a URL. For example: redis://localhost:6379 or rediss://localhost:6379. URLs can include a server-specific password. For example: redis://:password@localhost:6379. The redis scheme will disable the ssl settings for the host, while rediss will enforce TLS. If rediss is specified and no ssl settings are configured, the output uses the system certificate store.

The index name added to the events metadata for use by Logstash. The default is "apm-server".

The name of the Redis list or channel the events are published to. If not configured, the value of the index setting is used.

You can set the key dynamically by using a format string to access any event field. For example, this configuration uses a custom field, fields.list, to set the Redis list key. If fields.list is missing, fallback is used:

output.redis:
  hosts: ["localhost"]
  key: "%{[fields.list]:fallback}"

See the keys setting for other ways to set the key dynamically.

An array of key selector rules. Each rule specifies the key to use for events that match the rule. During publishing, APM Server uses the first matching rule in the array. Rules can contain conditionals, format string-based fields, and name mappings. If the keys setting is missing or no rule matches, the key setting is used.

Rule settings:

Example keys settings:

output.redis:
  hosts: ["localhost"]
  key: "default_list"
  keys:
    - key: "info_list"   # send to info_list if `message` field contains INFO
      when.contains:
        message: "INFO"
    - key: "debug_list"  # send to debug_list if `message` field contains DEBUG
      when.contains:
        message: "DEBUG"
    - key: "%{[fields.list]}"
      mappings:
        http: "frontend_list"
        nginx: "frontend_list"
        mysql: "backend_list"

The password to authenticate with. The default is no authentication.

The Redis database number where the events are published. The default is 0.

The Redis data type to use for publishing events.If the data type is list, the Redis RPUSH command is used and all events are added to the list with the key defined under key. If the data type channel is used, the Redis PUBLISH command is used and means that all events are pushed to the pub/sub mechanism of Redis. The name of the channel is the one defined under key. The default value is list.

Output codec configuration. If the codec section is missing, events will be JSON encoded.

See Change the output codec for more information.

The number of workers to use for each host configured to publish events to Redis. Use this setting along with the loadbalance option. For example, if you have 2 hosts and 3 workers, in total 6 workers are started (3 for each host).

If set to true and multiple hosts or workers are configured, the output plugin load balances published events onto all Redis hosts. If set to false, the output plugin sends all events to only one host (determined at random) and will switch to another host if the currently selected one becomes unreachable. The default value is true.

The Redis connection timeout in seconds. The default is 5 seconds.

The number of seconds to wait before trying to reconnect to Redis after a network error. After waiting backoff.init seconds, APM Server tries to reconnect. If the attempt fails, the backoff timer is increased exponentially up to backoff.max. After a successful connection, the backoff timer is reset. The default is 1s.

The maximum number of seconds to wait before attempting to connect to Redis after a network error. The default is 60s.

The number of times to retry publishing an event after a publishing failure. After the specified number of retries, the events are typically dropped.

Set max_retries to a value less than 0 to retry until all events are published.

The default is 3.

The maximum number of events to bulk in a single Redis request or pipeline. The default is 2048.

If the Beat sends single events, the events are collected into batches. If the Beat publishes a large batch of events (larger than the value specified by bulk_max_size), the batch is split.

Specifying a larger batch size can improve performance by lowering the overhead of sending events. However big batch sizes can also increase processing times, which might result in API errors, killed connections, timed-out publishing requests, and, ultimately, lower throughput.

Setting bulk_max_size to values less than or equal to 0 disables the splitting of batches. When splitting is disabled, the queue decides on the number of events to be contained in a batch.

Configuration options for SSL parameters like the root CA for Redis connections guarded by SSL proxies (for example stunnel). See SSL/TLS output settings for more information.

The URL of the SOCKS5 proxy to use when connecting to the Redis servers. The value must be a URL with a scheme of socks5://. You cannot use a web proxy because the protocol used to communicate with Redis is not based on HTTP.

If the SOCKS5 proxy server requires client authentication, you can embed a username and password in the URL.

When using a proxy, hostnames are resolved on the proxy server instead of on the client. You can change this behavior by setting the proxy_use_local_resolver option.

This option determines whether Redis hostnames are resolved locally when using a proxy. The default value is false, which means that name resolution occurs on the proxy server.