App Search output plugin

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  • Plugin version: v1.0.0.beta1
  • Released on: 2018-11-06
  • Changelog

For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.

Getting Help

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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

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This output lets you send events to the Elastic App Search solution. On receiving a batch of events from the Logstash pipeline, the plugin converts the events into documents and uses the App Search bulk API to index multiple events in one request.

App Search doesn’t allow fields to begin with @timestamp. By default the @timestamp and @version fields will be removed from each event before the event is sent to App Search. If you want to keep the @timestamp field, you can use the timestamp_destination option to store the timestamp in a different field.

This gem does not support codec customization.

AppSearch Output Configuration Options

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

Setting Input type Required

api_key

password

Yes

document_id

string

No

engine

string

Yes

host

string

Yes

timestamp_destination

string

No

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

 

api_key

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  • Value type is password
  • There is no default value

The private API Key with write permissions. Visit the Credentials in the App Search dashboard to find the key associated with your account.

document_id

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  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value

The id for app search documents. This can be an interpolated value like myapp-%{sequence_id}. Reusing ids will cause documents to be rewritten.

engine

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  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value

The Engine name. Engine is your search engine created in App Search, an information repository that includes the indexed document records.

host

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  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value

The hostname of the App Search API that is associated with your App Search account.

timestamp_destination

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  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value

Where to move the value from the @timestamp field.

All Logstash events contain a @timestamp field. App Search doesn’t support fields starting with @timestamp, and by default, the @timestamp field will be deleted.

To keep the timestamp field, set this value to the name of the field where you want @timestamp copied.

Common Options

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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

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  • 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

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

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