add_cloud_metadata

The add_cloud_metadata processor enriches each event with instance metadata from the machine’s hosting provider. At startup it will detect the hosting provider and cache the instance metadata.

Three cloud providers are supported.

The simple configuration below enables the processor.

processors:
- add_cloud_metadata:

The add_cloud_metadata processor has one optional configuration setting named timeout that 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 metadata that is added to events varies by hosting provider. Below are examples for each of the supported providers.

EC2

{
  "meta": {
    "cloud": {
      "availability_zone": "us-east-1c",
      "instance_id": "i-4e123456",
      "machine_type": "t2.medium",
      "provider": "ec2",
      "region": "us-east-1"
    }
  }
}

Digital Ocean

{
  "meta": {
    "cloud": {
      "instance_id": "1234567",
      "provider": "digitalocean",
      "region": "nyc2"
    }
  }
}

GCE

{
  "meta": {
    "cloud": {
      "availability_zone": "projects/1234567890/zones/us-east1-b",
      "instance_id": "1234556778987654321",
      "machine_type": "projects/1234567890/machineTypes/f1-micro",
      "project_id": "my-dev",
      "provider": "gce"
    }
  }
}