Add cloud metadata

The add_cloud_metadata processor enriches each event with instance metadata from the machine’s hosting provider. At startup it will query a list of hosting providers and cache the instance metadata.

The following cloud providers are supported:

The Alibaba Cloud and Tencent cloud providers are disabled by default, because they require to access a remote host. The providers setting allows users to select a list of default providers to query.

The simple configuration below enables the processor.

processors:
  - add_cloud_metadata: ~

The add_cloud_metadata processor has three optional configuration settings. The first one is timeout which specifies the maximum amount of time to wait for a successful response when detecting the hosting provider. The default timeout value is 3s.

If a timeout occurs then no instance metadata will be added to the events. This makes it possible to enable this processor for all your deployments (in the cloud or on-premise).

The second optional setting is providers. The providers settings accepts a list of cloud provider names to be used. If providers is not configured, then all providers that do not access a remote endpoint are enabled by default.

List of names the providers setting supports:

The third optional configuration setting is overwrite. When overwrite is true, add_cloud_metadata overwrites existing cloud.* fields (false by default).

The metadata that is added to events varies by hosting provider. Below are examples for each of the supported providers.

AWS

{
  "cloud": {
    "account.id": "123456789012",
    "availability_zone": "us-east-1c",
    "instance.id": "i-4e123456",
    "machine.type": "t2.medium",
    "image.id": "ami-abcd1234",
    "provider": "aws",
    "region": "us-east-1"
  }
}

Digital Ocean

{
  "cloud": {
    "instance.id": "1234567",
    "provider": "digitalocean",
    "region": "nyc2"
  }
}

GCP

{
  "cloud": {
    "availability_zone": "us-east1-b",
    "instance.id": "1234556778987654321",
    "machine.type": "f1-micro",
    "project.id": "my-dev",
    "provider": "gcp"
  }
}

Tencent Cloud

{
  "cloud": {
    "availability_zone": "gz-azone2",
    "instance.id": "ins-qcloudv5",
    "provider": "qcloud",
    "region": "china-south-gz"
  }
}

Alibaba Cloud

This metadata is only available when VPC is selected as the network type of the ECS instance.

{
  "cloud": {
    "availability_zone": "cn-shenzhen",
    "instance.id": "i-wz9g2hqiikg0aliyun2b",
    "provider": "ecs",
    "region": "cn-shenzhen-a"
  }
}

Azure Virtual Machine

{
  "cloud": {
    "provider": "azure",
    "instance.id": "04ab04c3-63de-4709-a9f9-9ab8c0411d5e",
    "instance.name": "test-az-vm",
    "machine.type": "Standard_D3_v2",
    "region": "eastus2"
  }
}

Openstack Nova

{
  "cloud": {
    "instance.name": "test-998d932195.mycloud.tld",
    "instance.id": "i-00011a84",
    "availability_zone": "xxxx-az-c",
    "provider": "openstack",
    "machine.type": "m2.large"
  }
}