Librato output plugin

  • Plugin version: v3.0.6
  • Released on: 2018-04-06
  • Changelog

For other versions, see theVersioned plugin docs.

Installation

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

Getting Help

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

This output lets you send metrics, annotations, and alerts toLibrato based on Logstash events

This is VERY experimental and inefficient right now.

Librato Output Configuration Options

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

Setting Input type Required

account_id

string

Yes

annotation

hash

No

api_token

string

Yes

batch_size

string

No

counter

hash

No

gauge

hash

No

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

 

account_id

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

Your Librato accountusually an email address

annotation

  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

AnnotationsRegisters an annotation with LibratoThe only required field is title and name.start_time and end_time will be set to event.get("@timestamp").to_iYou can add any other optional annotation values as well.All values will be passed through event.sprintf

Example:

  {      "title" => "Logstash event on %{host}"      "name" => "logstash_stream"  }or
{   "title" => "Logstash event"   "description" => "%{message}"   "name" => "logstash_stream"}

api_token

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

Your Librato API Token

batch_size

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "10"

Batch sizeNumber of events to batch up before sending to Librato.

counter

  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

CountersSend data to Librato as a counter

Example:

{    "value" => "1"    "source" => "%{host}"    "name" => "messages_received"}

Additionally, you can override the measure_time for the event. Must be a unix timestamp:

    {        "value" => "1"        "source" => "%{host}"        "name" => "messages_received"        "measure_time" => "%{my_unixtime_field}"    }Default is to use the event's timestamp

gauge

  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

GaugesSend data to Librato as a gauge

Example:

    {        "value" => "%{bytes_received}"        "source" => "%{host}"        "name" => "apache_bytes"    }Additionally, you can override the `measure_time` for the event. Must be a unix timestamp:
    {        "value" => "%{bytes_received}"        "source" => "%{host}"        "name" => "apache_bytes"        "measure_time" => "%{my_unixtime_field}    }Default is to use the event's timestamp

Common Options

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

  • 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

  • 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 collectionfor a specific plugin.

id

  • 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 usefulwhen you have two or more plugins of the same type. For example, if you have 2 librato outputs.Adding a named ID in this case will help in monitoring Logstash when using the monitoring APIs.

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