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A transform allows you to parse, structure, and enrich your data. You can use multiple transforms in your pipeline.

Aggregate

Configuration for the aggregate transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

interval_ms

optional

integer

The interval between flushes, in milliseconds.

During this time frame, metrics with the same series data (name, namespace, tags, and so on) are aggregated.

interval_ms: 10000
type: aggregate

AWS EC2 Metadata

Configuration for the aws_ec2_metadata transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

endpoint

optional

string

Overrides the default EC2 metadata endpoint.

fields

optional

[string]

A list of metadata fields to include in each transformed event.

namespace

optional

 <oneOf>

Sets a prefix for all event fields added by the transform.

Option 1

optional

string

An optional path that deserializes an empty string to None.

proxy

optional

object

Proxy configuration.

Configure to proxy traffic through an HTTP(S) proxy when making external requests.

Similar to common proxy configuration convention, you can set different proxies to use based on the type of traffic being proxied, as well as set specific hosts that should not be proxied.

enabled

optional

boolean

Enables proxying support.

default: true

http

optional

uri

Proxy endpoint to use when proxying HTTP traffic.

Must be a valid URI string.

default: null

https

optional

uri

Proxy endpoint to use when proxying HTTPS traffic.

Must be a valid URI string.

default: null

no_proxy

optional

[string]

A list of hosts to avoid proxying.

Multiple patterns are allowed:

PatternExample match
Domain namesexample.com matches requests to example.com
Wildcard domains.example.com matches requests to example.com and its subdomains
IP addresses127.0.0.1 matches requests to 127.0.0.1
CIDR blocks192.168.0.0/16 matches requests to any IP addresses in this range
Splat* matches all hosts

refresh_interval_secs

optional

integer

The interval between querying for updated metadata, in seconds.

refresh_timeout_secs

optional

integer

The timeout for querying the EC2 metadata endpoint, in seconds.

required

optional

boolean

Requires the transform to be able to successfully query the EC2 metadata before starting to process the data.

tags

optional

[string]

A list of instance tags to include in each transformed event.

endpoint: 'http://169.254.169.254'
fields:
  - ami-id
  - availability-zone
  - instance-id
  - instance-type
  - local-hostname
  - local-ipv4
  - public-hostname
  - public-ipv4
  - region
  - subnet-id
  - vpc-id
  - role-name
namespace: ''
proxy:
  enabled: true
  http: null
  https: null
refresh_interval_secs: 10
refresh_timeout_secs: 1
required: true
tags: []
type: aws_ec2_metadata

Dedupe

Configuration for the dedupe transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

cache

optional

object

Caching configuration for deduplication.

num_events

required

integer

Number of events to cache and use for comparing incoming events to previously seen events.

default: 5000

fields

optional

 <oneOf>

Options to control what fields to match against.

When no field matching configuration is specified, events are matched using the timestamp, host, and message fields from an event. The specific field names used are those set in the global log schema configuration.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

Options to control what fields to match against.

When no field matching configuration is specified, events are matched using the timestamp, host, and message fields from an event. The specific field names used are those set in the global log schema configuration.

MatchFields

optional

object

Matches events using only the specified fields.

match

required

[string]

A wrapper around OwnedTargetPath that allows it to be used in Vector config with prefix default to PathPrefix::Event

IgnoreFields

optional

object

Matches events using all fields except for the ignored ones.

ignore

required

[string]

A wrapper around OwnedTargetPath that allows it to be used in Vector config with prefix default to PathPrefix::Event

cache:
  num_events: 5000
fields: ''
type: dedupe

Filter

Configuration for the filter transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

condition

required

 <oneOf>

The condition that every input event is matched against.

If an event is matched by the condition, it is forwarded. Otherwise, the event is dropped.

String

optional

string

Map

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A fully-specified condition.

IsLog

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a log.

type

required

is_log

Matches an event if it is a log.

IsMetric

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a metric.

type

required

is_metric

Matches an event if it is a metric.

IsTrace

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a trace.

type

required

is_trace

Matches an event if it is a trace.

Vrl

optional

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

runtime

optional

string

The runtime to use for executing VRL code.

source

required

string

The VRL boolean expression.

type

required

vrl

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

DatadogSearch

optional

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

source

required

string

The query string.

type

required

datadog_search

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

condition: ''
type: filter

Metric To Log

Configuration for the metric_to_log transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

host_tag

optional

string,​null

Name of the tag in the metric to use for the source host.

If present, the value of the tag is set on the generated log event in the host field, where the field key uses the global host_key option.

log_namespace

optional

boolean,​null

The namespace to use for logs. This overrides the global setting.

metric_tag_values

optional

 <oneOf>

Controls how metric tag values are encoded.

When set to single, only the last non-bare value of tags are displayed with the metric. When set to full, all metric tags are exposed as separate assignments as described by the native_json codec.

single

optional

single

Tag values are exposed as single strings, the same as they were before this config option. Tags with multiple values show the last assigned value, and null values are ignored.

full

optional

full

All tags are exposed as arrays of either string or null values.

timezone

optional

 <oneOf>

The name of the time zone to apply to timestamp conversions that do not contain an explicit time zone.

This overrides the global timezone option. The time zone name may be any name in the TZ database or local to indicate system local time.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

Timezone reference.

This can refer to any valid timezone as defined in the TZ database, or "local" which refers to the system local timezone.

Named

optional

string

A named timezone.

Must be a valid name in the TZ database.

host_tag: string
log_namespace: boolean
metric_tag_values: single
timezone: ''
type: metric_to_log

Reduce

Configuration for the reduce transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

ends_when

optional

 <oneOf>

A condition used to distinguish the final event of a transaction.

If this condition resolves to true for an event, the current transaction is immediately flushed with this event.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

Many methods exist for matching events, such as using a VRL expression, a Datadog Search query string, or hard-coded matchers like "must be a metric" or "fields A, B, and C must match these constraints".

As VRL is the most common way to apply conditions to events, this type provides a shortcut to define VRL expressions directly in the configuration by passing the VRL expression as a string:

condition = '.message == "hooray"'

When other condition types are required, they can be specified with an enum-style notation:

condition.type = 'datadog_search'
condition.source = 'NOT "foo"'

String

optional

string

Map

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A fully-specified condition.

IsLog

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a log.

type

required

is_log

Matches an event if it is a log.

IsMetric

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a metric.

type

required

is_metric

Matches an event if it is a metric.

IsTrace

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a trace.

type

required

is_trace

Matches an event if it is a trace.

Vrl

optional

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

runtime

optional

string

The runtime to use for executing VRL code.

source

required

string

The VRL boolean expression.

type

required

vrl

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

DatadogSearch

optional

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

source

required

string

The query string.

type

required

datadog_search

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

expire_after_ms

optional

integer

The maximum period of time to wait after the last event is received, in milliseconds, before a combined event should be considered complete.

flush_period_ms

optional

integer

The interval to check for and flush any expired events, in milliseconds.

group_by

optional

[string]

An ordered list of fields by which to group events.

Each group with matching values for the specified keys is reduced independently, allowing you to keep independent event streams separate. When no fields are specified, all events are combined in a single group.

For example, if group_by = ["host", "region"], then all incoming events that have the same host and region are grouped together before being reduced.

max_events

optional

integer,​null

The maximum number of events to group together.

merge_strategies

optional

object

A map of field names to custom merge strategies.

For each field specified, the given strategy is used for combining events rather than the default behavior.

The default behavior is as follows:

  • The first value of a string field is kept and subsequent values are discarded.
  • For timestamp fields the first is kept and a new field [field-name]_end is added with the last received timestamp value.
  • Numeric values are summed.

starts_when

optional

 <oneOf>

A condition used to distinguish the first event of a transaction.

If this condition resolves to true for an event, the previous transaction is flushed (without this event) and a new transaction is started.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

Many methods exist for matching events, such as using a VRL expression, a Datadog Search query string, or hard-coded matchers like "must be a metric" or "fields A, B, and C must match these constraints".

As VRL is the most common way to apply conditions to events, this type provides a shortcut to define VRL expressions directly in the configuration by passing the VRL expression as a string:

condition = '.message == "hooray"'

When other condition types are required, they can be specified with an enum-style notation:

condition.type = 'datadog_search'
condition.source = 'NOT "foo"'

String

optional

string

Map

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A fully-specified condition.

IsLog

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a log.

type

required

is_log

Matches an event if it is a log.

IsMetric

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a metric.

type

required

is_metric

Matches an event if it is a metric.

IsTrace

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a trace.

type

required

is_trace

Matches an event if it is a trace.

Vrl

optional

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

runtime

optional

string

The runtime to use for executing VRL code.

source

required

string

The VRL boolean expression.

type

required

vrl

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

DatadogSearch

optional

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

source

required

string

The query string.

type

required

datadog_search

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

ends_when: ''
expire_after_ms: 30000
flush_period_ms: 1000
group_by: []
max_events: integer
merge_strategies: {}
starts_when: ''
type: reduce

Remap

Configuration for the remap transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

drop_on_abort

optional

boolean

Drops any event that is manually aborted during processing.

Normally, if a VRL program is manually aborted (using abort) when processing an event, the original, unmodified event is sent downstream. In some cases, you may not wish to send the event any further, such as if certain transformation or enrichment is strictly required. Setting drop_on_abort to true allows you to ensure these events do not get processed any further.

Additionally, dropped events can potentially be diverted to a specially-named output for further logging and analysis by setting reroute_dropped.

drop_on_error

optional

boolean

Drops any event that encounters an error during processing.

Normally, if a VRL program encounters an error when processing an event, the original, unmodified event is sent downstream. In some cases, you may not want to send the event any further, such as if certain transformation or enrichment is strictly required. Setting drop_on_error to true allows you to ensure these events do not get processed any further.

Additionally, dropped events can potentially be diverted to a specially named output for further logging and analysis by setting reroute_dropped.

file

optional

 <oneOf>

File path to the Vector Remap Language (VRL) program to execute for each event.

If a relative path is provided, its root is the current working directory.

Required if source is missing.

Option 1

optional

string

A file path.

metric_tag_values

optional

 <oneOf>

When set to single, metric tag values are exposed as single strings, the same as they were before this config option. Tags with multiple values show the last assigned value, and null values are ignored.

When set to full, all metric tags are exposed as arrays of either string or null values.

single

optional

single

Tag values are exposed as single strings, the same as they were before this config option. Tags with multiple values show the last assigned value, and null values are ignored.

full

optional

full

All tags are exposed as arrays of either string or null values.

reroute_dropped

optional

boolean

Reroutes dropped events to a named output instead of halting processing on them.

When using drop_on_error or drop_on_abort, events that are "dropped" are processed no further. In some cases, it may be desirable to keep the events around for further analysis, debugging, or retrying.

In these cases, reroute_dropped can be set to true which forwards the original event to a specially-named output, dropped. The original event is annotated with additional fields describing why the event was dropped.

runtime

optional

string

The runtime to use for executing VRL code.

source

optional

string,​null

The Vector Remap Language (VRL) program to execute for each event.

Required if file is missing.

timezone

optional

 <oneOf>

The name of the timezone to apply to timestamp conversions that do not contain an explicit time zone.

This overrides the global timezone option. The time zone name may be any name in the TZ database, or local to indicate system local time.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

Timezone reference.

This can refer to any valid timezone as defined in the TZ database, or "local" which refers to the system local timezone.

Named

optional

string

A named timezone.

Must be a valid name in the TZ database.

drop_on_abort: true
drop_on_error: boolean
file: ''
metric_tag_values: single
reroute_dropped: boolean
runtime: ast
source: string
timezone: ''
type: remap

Route

Configuration for the route transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

reroute_unmatched

optional

boolean

Reroutes unmatched events to a named output instead of silently discarding them.

Normally, if an event doesn't match any defined route, it is sent to the <transform_name>._unmatched output for further processing. In some cases, you may want to simply discard unmatched events and not process them any further.

In these cases, reroute_unmatched can be set to false to disable the <transform_name>._unmatched output and instead silently discard any unmatched events.

route

optional

object

A table of route identifiers to logical conditions representing the filter of the route.

Each route can then be referenced as an input by other components with the name <transform_name>.<route_id>. If an event doesn’t match any route, and if reroute_unmatched is set to true (the default), it is sent to the <transform_name>._unmatched output. Otherwise, the unmatched event is instead silently discarded.

Both _unmatched, as well as _default, are reserved output names and thus cannot be used as a route name.

reroute_unmatched: true
route: object
type: route

Sample

Configuration for the sample transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

exclude

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A logical condition used to exclude events from sampling.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

Many methods exist for matching events, such as using a VRL expression, a Datadog Search query string, or hard-coded matchers like "must be a metric" or "fields A, B, and C must match these constraints".

As VRL is the most common way to apply conditions to events, this type provides a shortcut to define VRL expressions directly in the configuration by passing the VRL expression as a string:

condition = '.message == "hooray"'

When other condition types are required, they can be specified with an enum-style notation:

condition.type = 'datadog_search'
condition.source = 'NOT "foo"'

String

optional

string

Map

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A fully-specified condition.

IsLog

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a log.

type

required

is_log

Matches an event if it is a log.

IsMetric

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a metric.

type

required

is_metric

Matches an event if it is a metric.

IsTrace

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a trace.

type

required

is_trace

Matches an event if it is a trace.

Vrl

optional

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

runtime

optional

string

The runtime to use for executing VRL code.

source

required

string

The VRL boolean expression.

type

required

vrl

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

DatadogSearch

optional

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

source

required

string

The query string.

type

required

datadog_search

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

key_field

optional

string,​null

The name of the field whose value is hashed to determine if the event should be sampled.

Each unique value for the key creates a bucket of related events to be sampled together and the rate is applied to the buckets themselves to sample 1/N buckets. The overall rate of sampling may differ from the configured one if values in the field are not uniformly distributed. If left unspecified, or if the event doesn’t have key_field, then the event is sampled independently.

This can be useful to, for example, ensure that all logs for a given transaction are sampled together, but that overall 1/N transactions are sampled.

rate

required

integer

The rate at which events are forwarded, expressed as 1/N.

For example, rate = 10 means 1 out of every 10 events are forwarded and the rest are dropped.

exclude: ''
key_field: string
rate: integer
type: sample

Sensitive Data Scanner

Configuration for the sensitive_data_scanner transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

description

optional

string,​null

Optional description of this scanner.

rules

required

[object]

Array of rules containing all the scanning rules inside the scanning group.

name

required

string

The name of this scanning rule.

on_match

required

 <oneOf>

Define action on match

Scrubbing and hashing are irreversible changes. Please be sure you want to replace the matching values with the replacement text or hashed value.

  • Redact to replace all matching values entirely with a single token of your choice.

  • Partially redact to replace a specific portion of all matching values.

  • Hash to replace all matching values entirely with a non-reversible unique identifier.

Redact

optional

object

Redact the matched data by replacing it with a fixed string.

action

required

redact

Redact the matched data by replacing it with a fixed string.

replace

required

string

The replacement text.

Hash

optional

object

Hash the matched data with the farmhash algorithm.

action

required

hash

Hash the matched data with the farmhash algorithm.

PartialRedact

optional

object

Replace part of the matched data with asterisks.

action

required

partial_redact

Replace part of the matched data with asterisks.

characters

required

integer

How many characters should be redacted?

option

required

 <oneOf>

Which part of the matched data should be redacted?

first

optional

first

Redact the first characters.

last

optional

last

Redact the last characters.

pattern

required

 <oneOf>

The sensitive data pattern to match in the events.

Custom

optional

object

Use a custom regex rule to scan this pattern.

rule

required

string

The custom rule regex pattern.

The log content is checked against the regular expression below.

type

required

custom

Use a custom regex rule to scan this pattern.

Library

optional

object

Look up a rule name in the library of pre-configured patterns.

name

required

 <oneOf>

The name of the library pattern.

type

required

library

Look up a rule name in the library of pre-configured patterns.

scope

required

 <oneOf>

Scan entire event or portion of it

By default, the regex is checked on all log attributes. For finer grained processing, identify an inclusion or exclusion list of attributes with a comma-separated list, such as admin.email, recipient.

Entire

optional

object

Entire Event

exclude

optional

[string]

The list of field names to exclude.

target

required

entire event

Entire Event

Attribute

optional

object

Specific Attributes

include

optional

[string]

The list of field names to include.

target

required

specific attributes

Specific Attributes

tags

optional

[string]

An optional array of tags to associated with matched events.

description: string
rules: array
type: sensitive_data_scanner

Tag Cardinality Limit

Configuration for the tag_cardinality_limit transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

limit_exceeded_action

optional

 <oneOf>

Possible actions to take when an event arrives that would exceed the cardinality limit for one or more of its tags.

drop_tag

optional

drop_tag

Drop the tag(s) that would exceed the configured limit.

drop_event

optional

drop_event

Drop the entire event itself.

value_limit

optional

integer

How many distinct values to accept for any given key.

_metadata

optional

description

optional

Controls the approach taken for tracking tag cardinality.

oneOf

optional

limit_exceeded_action: drop_tag
value_limit: 500
type: tag_cardinality_limit

Throttle

Configuration for the throttle transform.

Campo

required

Tipo

Descripción

exclude

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A logical condition used to exclude events from sampling.

Option 1

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

Many methods exist for matching events, such as using a VRL expression, a Datadog Search query string, or hard-coded matchers like "must be a metric" or "fields A, B, and C must match these constraints".

As VRL is the most common way to apply conditions to events, this type provides a shortcut to define VRL expressions directly in the configuration by passing the VRL expression as a string:

condition = '.message == "hooray"'

When other condition types are required, they can be specified with an enum-style notation:

condition.type = 'datadog_search'
condition.source = 'NOT "foo"'

String

optional

string

Map

optional

 <oneOf>

An event matching condition.

A fully-specified condition.

IsLog

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a log.

type

required

is_log

Matches an event if it is a log.

IsMetric

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a metric.

type

required

is_metric

Matches an event if it is a metric.

IsTrace

optional

object

Matches an event if it is a trace.

type

required

is_trace

Matches an event if it is a trace.

Vrl

optional

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

runtime

optional

string

The runtime to use for executing VRL code.

source

required

string

The VRL boolean expression.

type

required

vrl

Matches an event with a Vector Remap Language (VRL) boolean expression.

DatadogSearch

optional

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

source

required

string

The query string.

type

required

datadog_search

Matches an event with a Datadog Search query.

key_field

optional

 <oneOf>

The value to group events into separate buckets to be rate limited independently.

If left unspecified, or if the event doesn't have key_field, then the event is not rate limited separately.

Option 1

optional

string

A templated field.

In many cases, components can be configured so that part of the component's functionality can be customized on a per-event basis. For example, you have a sink that writes events to a file and you want to specify which file an event should go to by using an event field as part of the input to the filename used.

By using Template, users can specify either fixed strings or templated strings. Templated strings use a common syntax to refer to fields in an event that is used as the input data when rendering the template. An example of a fixed string is my-file.log. An example of a template string is my-file-{{key}}.log, where {{key}} is the key's value when the template is rendered into a string.

threshold

required

integer

The number of events allowed for a given bucket per configured window_secs.

Each unique key has its own threshold.

window_secs

required

number

The time window in which the configured threshold is applied, in seconds.

exclude: ''
key_field: ''
threshold: integer
window_secs: number
type: throttle