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Google Cloud Storage output plugin

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Google Cloud Storage output plugin

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Plugin version: v4.5.0
Released on: 2024-09-16
Changelog

For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.

Installation

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

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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A plugin to upload log events to Google Cloud Storage (GCS), rolling files based on the date pattern provided as a configuration setting. Events are written to files locally and, once file is closed, this plugin uploads it to the configured bucket.

For more info on Google Cloud Storage, please go to: https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage

In order to use this plugin, a Google service account must be used. For more information, please refer to: https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/authentication#service_accounts

Recommendation: experiment with the settings depending on how much log data you generate, so the uploader can keep up with the generated logs. Using gzip output can be a good option to reduce network traffic when uploading the log files and in terms of storage costs as well.

Usage

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This is an example of logstash config:

output {
   google_cloud_storage {
     bucket => "my_bucket"                                     (required)
     json_key_file => "/path/to/privatekey.json"               (optional)
     temp_directory => "/tmp/logstash-gcs"                     (optional)
     log_file_prefix => "logstash_gcs"                         (optional)
     max_file_size_kbytes => 1024                              (optional)
     output_format => "plain"                                  (optional)
     date_pattern => "%Y-%m-%dT%H:00"                          (optional)
     flush_interval_secs => 2                                  (optional)
     gzip => false                                             (optional)
     gzip_content_encoding => false                            (optional)
     uploader_interval_secs => 60                              (optional)
     include_uuid => true                                      (optional)
     include_hostname => true                                  (optional)
   }
}

Additional Resources

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Improvements TODO List

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Support logstash event variables to determine filename.
Turn Google API code into a Plugin Mixin (like AwsConfig).
There’s no recover method, so if logstash/plugin crashes, files may not be uploaded to GCS.
Allow user to configure file name.
Allow parallel uploads for heavier loads (+ connection configuration if exposed by Ruby API client)

Google_cloud_storage Output Configuration Options

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

Setting	Input type	Required
`bucket`	string	Yes
`date_pattern`	string	No
`flush_interval_secs`	number	No
`gzip`	boolean	No
`gzip_content_encoding`	boolean	No
`include_hostname`	boolean	No
`include_uuid`	boolean	No
`json_key_file`	string	No
`key_password`	string	Deprecated
`log_file_prefix`	string	No
`max_concurrent_uploads`	number	No
`max_file_size_kbytes`	number	No
`output_format`	string, one of `["json", "plain", nil]`	Deprecated
`service_account`	string	Deprecated
`temp_directory`	string	No
`uploader_interval_secs`	number	No

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

`bucket`

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

GCS bucket name, without "gs://" or any other prefix.

`date_pattern`

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Value type is string
Default value is "%Y-%m-%dT%H:00"

Time pattern for log file, defaults to hourly files. Must Time.strftime patterns: www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Time.html#method-i-strftime

`flush_interval_secs`

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Value type is number
Default value is 2

Flush interval in seconds for flushing writes to log files. 0 will flush on every message.

`gzip`

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Value type is boolean
Default value is false

Gzip output stream when writing events to log files, set Content-Type to application/gzip instead of text/plain, and use file suffix .log.gz instead of .log.

`gzip_content_encoding`

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Added in 3.3.0.

Value type is boolean
Default value is false

Gzip output stream when writing events to log files and set Content-Encoding to gzip. This will upload your files as gzip saving network and storage costs, but they will be transparently decompressed when you read them from the storage bucket.

See the Cloud Storage documentation on metadata and transcoding for more information.

Note: It is not recommended to use both gzip_content_encoding and gzip. This compresses your file twice, will increase the work your machine does and makes the files larger than just compressing once.

`include_hostname`

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Added in 3.1.0.

Value type is boolean
Default value is true

Should the hostname be included in the file name? You may want to turn this off for privacy reasons or if you are running multiple instances of Logstash and need to match the files you create with a simple glob such as if you wanted to import files to BigQuery.

`include_uuid`

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Added in 3.1.0.

Value type is boolean
Default value is false

Adds a UUID to the end of a file name. You may want to enable this feature so files don’t clobber one another if you’re running multiple instances of Logstash or if you expect frequent node restarts.

`json_key_file`

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Value type is string
Default value is nil

The plugin can use Application Default Credentials (ADC), if it’s running on Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, or Cloud Functions.

Outside of Google Cloud, you will need create a Service Account JSON key file through the web interface or with the following command: gcloud iam service-accounts keys create key.json --iam-account [email protected]

`key_password`

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Value type is string
Default value is "notasecret"

Deprecated this feature is no longer used, the setting is now a part of json_key_file.

`log_file_prefix`

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Value type is string
Default value is "logstash_gcs"

Log file prefix. Log file will follow the format: <prefix>_hostname_date<.part?>.log

`max_concurrent_uploads`

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Value type is number
Default value is 5

Sets the maximum number of concurrent uploads to Cloud Storage at a time. Uploads are I/O bound so it makes sense to tune this paramater with regards to the network bandwidth available and the latency between your server and Cloud Storage.

`max_file_size_kbytes`

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Value type is number
Default value is 10000

Sets max file size in kbytes. 0 disable max file check.

`output_format`

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Value can be any of: json, plain, or no value
Default value is no value

Deprecated, this feature will be removed in the next major release. Use codecs instead.

If you are using the json value today, switch to the json_lines codec.
If you are using the plain value today, switch to the line codec.

The event format you want to store in files. Defaults to plain text.

Note: if you want to use a codec you MUST not set this value.

`service_account`

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

Deprecated this feature is no longer used, the setting is now a part of json_key_file.

`temp_directory`

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Value type is string
Default value is ""

Directory where temporary files are stored. Defaults to /tmp/logstash-gcs-<random-suffix>

`uploader_interval_secs`

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Value type is number
Default value is 60

Uploader interval when uploading new files to GCS. Adjust time based on your time pattern (for example, for hourly files, this interval can be around one hour).

Common options

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These 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 "line"

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.

`id`

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

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

Variable substitution in the id field only supports environment variables and does not support the use of values from the secret store.

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