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Boundary output plugin

  • Plugin version: v3.0.6
  • Released on: 2023-05-30
  • Changelog

For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.

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

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.

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

Note that since Logstash maintains no state these will be one-shot events

By default the start and stop time will be the event timestamp

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

Setting Input type Required
api_key password Yes
auto boolean No
bsubtype string No
btags array No
btype string No
end_time string No
org_id string Yes
start_time string No

Also see Common options for a list of options supported by all output plugins.

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

Your Boundary API key

  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is false

Auto If set to true, logstash will try to pull boundary fields out of the event. Any field explicitly set by config options will override these. ['type', 'subtype', 'creation_time', 'end_time', 'links', 'tags', 'loc']

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

Sub-Type

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

Tags Set any custom tags for this event Default are the Logstash tags if any

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

Type

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

End time Override the stop time Note that Boundary requires this to be seconds since epoch If overriding, it is your responsibility to type this correctly By default this is set to event.get("@timestamp").to_i

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

Your Boundary Org ID

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

Start time Override the start time Note that Boundary requires this to be seconds since epoch If overriding, it is your responsibility to type this correctly By default this is set to event.get("@timestamp").to_i

These configuration options are supported by all output plugins:

Setting Input type Required
codec codec No
enable_metric boolean No
id string No
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

output {
  boundary {
    id => "my_plugin_id"
  }
}
Note

Variable substitution in the id field only supports environment variables and does not support the use of values from the secret store.