Pulsar

Publish observability events to Apache Pulsar topics

status: beta delivery: at-least-once egress: stream state: stateless

Configuration

Example configurations 

{
  "sinks": {
    "my_sink_id": {
      "type": "pulsar",
      "inputs": "my-source-or-transform-id",
      "endpoint": "pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650",
      "topic": "topic-1234"
    }
  }
}
[sinks.my_sink_id]
type = "pulsar"
inputs = "my-source-or-transform-id"
endpoint = "pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650"
topic = "topic-1234"

---
sinks:
  my_sink_id:
    type: pulsar
    inputs: my-source-or-transform-id
    endpoint: pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650
    encoding: null
    healthcheck: null
    topic: topic-1234

{
  "sinks": {
    "my_sink_id": {
      "type": "pulsar",
      "inputs": "my-source-or-transform-id",
      "endpoint": "pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650",
      "topic": "topic-1234"
    }
  }
}
[sinks.my_sink_id]
type = "pulsar"
inputs = "my-source-or-transform-id"
endpoint = "pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650"
topic = "topic-1234"

---
sinks:
  my_sink_id:
    type: pulsar
    inputs: my-source-or-transform-id
    auth: null
    endpoint: pulsar://127.0.0.1:6650
    encoding: null
    healthcheck: null
    topic: topic-1234

auth

optional object
Options for the authentication strategy.

auth.name

optional string literal
The basic authentication name.

auth.token

optional string literal
The basic authentication password.

encoding

required object
Configures the encoding specific sink behavior.

encoding.codec

required string literal
The encoding codec used to serialize the events before outputting.

encoding.except_fields

optional array
Prevent the sink from encoding the specified fields.

encoding.only_fields

optional array
Makes the sink encode only the specified fields.

encoding.timestamp_format

optional string enum literal
How to format event timestamps.
Enum options
OptionDescription
rfc3339Formats as a RFC3339 string
unixFormats as a unix timestamp
default: rfc3339

endpoint

required string
Endpoint to which the pulsar client should connect to.

healthcheck

common optional object
Health check options for the sink.

healthcheck.enabled

optional bool
Enables/disables the healthcheck upon Vector boot.
default: true

inputs

required [string]

A list of upstream source or transform IDs. Wildcards (*) are supported but must be the last character in the ID.

See configuration for more info.

Array string literal
Examples 
[
  "my-source-or-transform-id",
  "prefix-*"
]

topic

required string
The Pulsar topic name to write events to.

Telemetry

Metrics

link

encode_errors_total

counter
The total number of errors encountered when encoding an event.

events_in_total

counter
The number of events accepted by this component either from tagged origin like file and uri, or cumulatively from other origins.
component_kind required
The Vector component kind.
component_name required
The Vector component name.
component_type required
The Vector component type.
container_name optional
The name of the container from which the event originates.
file optional
The file from which the event originates.
mode optional
The connection mode used by the component.
peer_addr optional
The IP from which the event originates.
peer_path optional
The pathname from which the event originates.
pod_name optional
The name of the pod from which the event originates.
uri optional
The sanitized URI from which the event originates.

events_out_total

counter
The total number of events emitted by this component.
component_kind required
The Vector component kind.
component_name required
The Vector component name.
component_type required
The Vector component type.

How it works

Health checks

Health checks ensure that the downstream service is accessible and ready to accept data. This check is performed upon sink initialization. If the health check fails an error will be logged and Vector will proceed to start.

Require health checks

If you’d like to exit immediately upon a health check failure, you can pass the --require-healthy flag:

vector --config /etc/vector/vector.toml --require-healthy

Disable health checks

If you’d like to disable health checks for this sink you can set the healthcheck option to false.

State

This component is stateless, meaning its behavior is consistent across each input.
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