circonusedit

  • Version: 3.0.0
  • Released on: 2016-09-09
  • Changelog

This plugin does not ship with Logstash by default, but it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-output-circonus.

 

Synopsisedit

This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

circonus {
    annotation => ...
    api_token => ...
    app_name => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required Default value

annotation

hash

Yes

{}

api_token

string

Yes

app_name

string

Yes

codec

codec

No

"plain"

enable_metric

boolean

No

true

id

string

No

workers

<<,>>

No

1

Detailsedit

 

annotationedit

  • This is a required setting.
  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

Annotations Registers an annotation with Circonus The only required field is title and description. start and stop will be set to the event timestamp. You can add any other optional annotation values as well. All values will be passed through event.sprintf

Example:

  ["title":"Logstash event", "description":"Logstash event for %{host}"]
or
[source,ruby]
  ["title":"Logstash event", "description":"Logstash event for %{host}", "parent_id", "1"]

api_tokenedit

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

This output lets you send annotations to Circonus based on Logstash events

Your Circonus API Token

app_nameedit

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

Your Circonus App name This will be passed through event.sprintf so variables are allowed here:

Example: app_name => "%{myappname}"

codecedit

  • 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_metricedit

  • 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.

idedit

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

Add a unique ID to the plugin instance, this ID is used for tracking information for a specific configuration of the plugin.

output {
 stdout {
   id => "ABC"
 }
}

If you don’t explicitely set this variable Logstash will generate a unique name.

workersedit

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is 1