Logging action
Elastic Stack Serverless
Use the logging
action to log text to the standard Elasticsearch logs. See Logging action attributes for the supported attributes.
This action is primarily used during development and for debugging purposes.
You configure logging actions in the actions
array. Action-specific attributes are specified using the logging
keyword.
The following snippet shows a simple logging action definition:
"actions" : {
"log" : { 1
"transform" : { ... }, 2
"logging" : {
"text" : "executed at {{ctx.execution_time}}" 3
}
}
}
- The id of the action.
- An optional transform to transform the payload before executing the
logging
action. - The text to be logged.
Name | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
text |
yes | - | The text that should be logged. Can be static text or include Mustache templates. |
category |
no | xpack.watcher.actions.logging | The category under which the text will be logged. |
level |
no | info | The logging level. Valid values are: error , warn , info , debug and trace . |