Remove Fields Transform

The Vector remove_fields transform shapes logs

Configuration

• Common
• Advanced

• vector.toml
• vector.yaml
• vector.json

[transforms.my_transform_id]
  type = "remove_fields" # required
  inputs = ["my-source-or-transform-id"] # required
  fields = ["field1", "field2", "parent.child"] # required

• optionalbool

  drop_empty

  If set to true, after removing fields, remove any parent objects that are now empty.

  • Default: false
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• commonrequired[string]

  fields

  The log field names to drop.

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Output

Telemetry

This component provides the following metrics that can be retrieved through the internal_metrics source. See the metrics section in the monitoring page for more info.

• counter

  processed_events_total

  The total number of events processed by this component. This metric includes the following tags:

  • component_kind - The Vector component kind.

  • component_name - The Vector component ID.

  • component_type - The Vector component type.

  • file - The file that produced the error

  • instance - The Vector instance identified by host and port.

  • job - The name of the job producing Vector metrics.

• counter

  processed_bytes_total

  The total number of bytes processed by the component. This metric includes the following tags:

  • component_kind - The Vector component kind.

  • component_name - The Vector component ID.

  • component_type - The Vector component type.

  • instance - The Vector instance identified by host and port.

  • job - The name of the job producing Vector metrics.

How It Works