Dns filter plugin

edit
  • Plugin version: v3.0.14
  • Released on: 2019-10-18
  • 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-filter-dns. 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

The DNS filter performs a lookup (either an A record/CNAME record lookup or a reverse lookup at the PTR record) on records specified under the reverse arrays or respectively under the resolve arrays.

The config should look like this:

    filter {
      dns {
        reverse => [ "source_host", "field_with_address" ]
        resolve => [ "field_with_fqdn" ]
        action => "replace"
      }
    }

This filter, like all filters, only processes 1 event at a time, so the use of this plugin can significantly slow down your pipeline’s throughput if you have a high latency network. By way of example, if each DNS lookup takes 2 milliseconds, the maximum throughput you can achieve with a single filter worker is 500 events per second (1000 milliseconds / 2 milliseconds).

Dns Filter Configuration Options

edit

This 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.

 

action

edit
  • Value can be any of: append, replace
  • Default value is "append"

Determine what action to do: append or replace the values in the fields specified under reverse and resolve.

failed_cache_size

edit
  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 0

cache size for failed requests

failed_cache_ttl

edit
  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 5

how long to cache failed requests (in seconds)

hit_cache_size

edit
  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 0

set the size of cache for successful requests

hit_cache_ttl

edit
  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 60

how long to cache successful requests (in seconds)

hostsfile

edit
  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Use custom hosts file(s). For example: ["/var/db/my_custom_hosts"]

max_retries

edit
  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 2

number of times to retry a failed resolve/reverse

nameserver

edit
  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Use custom nameserver(s). For example: ["8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4"]. If nameserver is not specified then /etc/resolv.conf will be read to configure the resolver using the nameserver, domain, search and ndots directives in /etc/resolv.conf.

Note that nameservers normally resolve fully qualified domain names (FQDN) and relying on /etc/resolv.conf can be useful to provide a domains search list to resolve underqualified host names for example.

resolve

edit
  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Forward resolve one or more fields.

reverse

edit
  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Reverse resolve one or more fields.

timeout

edit
  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 0.5

resolv calls will be wrapped in a timeout instance

Common Options

edit

The following configuration options are supported by all filter plugins:

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 {
      dns {
        add_field => { "foo_%{somefield}" => "Hello world, from %{host}" }
      }
    }
    # You can also add multiple fields at once:
    filter {
      dns {
        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 {
      dns {
        add_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ]
      }
    }
    # You can also add multiple tags at once:
    filter {
      dns {
        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.

  • 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 dns filters. Adding a named ID in this case will help in monitoring Logstash when using the monitoring APIs.

    filter {
      dns {
        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 {
      dns {
        remove_field => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ]
      }
    }
    # You can also remove multiple fields at once:
    filter {
      dns {
        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 {
      dns {
        remove_tag => [ "foo_%{somefield}" ]
      }
    }
    # You can also remove multiple tags at once:
    filter {
      dns {
        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.