Common

Common params for all output and filter plugins

Status : core feature, unit tested and maintained.

In url format

• only_type: execute the filter / output plugin only on lines with specified type. Example: only_type=nginx
• only_field_exist_toto: execute the filter / output plugin only on lines with a field toto. You can specify it multiple times, all fields have to exist.
• only_field_equal_toto=aaa: execute the filter / output plugin only on lines with a field toto, with value aaa. You can specify it multiple times, all fields have to exist and have the specified value.
• only_field_match_toto=aaa$: execute the filter / output plugin only on lines with a field toto, with value match the regular expression aaa$. You can specify it multiple times, all fields have to exist and match the regular expression.

In logstash config format

As in logstash, you can have an event dependent configuration.

Example 1: use statsd output only for a given type.

output {
  if [type] == nginx {
    statsd {
      host => localhost
      port => 8125
      metric_type => increment
      metric_key => nginx.request
    }
  } else if [type] == apache {
    statsd {
      host => localhost
      port => 8125
      metric_type => increment
      metric_key => apache.request
    }
 }
}

As in logstash, you can use complex conditions: if [loglevel] == "ERROR" and [deployment] == "production" {

You can use the following comparison operators:

• equality: ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=
• regexp: =~, !~
• inclusion: in, not in

The supported boolean operators are: and, or, nand, xor. The supported unary operators are: !.

Conditions can be long and complex. You can use if, elsif, else. Conditions can contain other expressions, you can negate expressions with !, and you can group them with parentheses (...).

Interpolation

When a plugin param is a string, you can use string interpolation to reference line data:

• #{message} will return the full log line
• #{type} will return the type of log line
• #{toto} will return the value of the field toto, which have to be extracted with a regex filter
• 2#{toto} will return 2 followed by the value of the field toto.
• #{now:YYYY} will return the current year. YYYY is a date format passed to moment to format current date.

SSL Params

Status : core feature, unit tested and maintained.

When you are in SSL mode (client or server), you can use all the parameters using by node for SSL / TLS, prefixed by ssl_. You have to give path for certificate and key params, node-logstash will load them before initializing SSL / TLS stack.

For example, for a HTTPS server : ssl=true&ssl_cert=/path/to/cert&ssl_key=/path/to/key

For using a Certificate authority, add &ssl_ca=/path/to/ca.

For changing SSL ciphers, add ssl_ciphers=AES128-GCM-SHA256.

To use a client certificate, add ssl_cert=/client.cer&ssl_key=/client.key&ssl_ca=/tmp/ca.key.

To ignore ssl errors, add ``ssl_rejectUnauthorized=false`.