Split Transform

The Vector split transform shapes logs

Configuration

• Common
• Advanced

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

[transforms.my_transform_id]
  # General
  type = "split" # required
  inputs = ["my-source-or-transform-id"] # required
  drop_field = true # optional, default
  field = "message" # optional, default
  field_names = ["timestamp", "level", "message", "parent.child"] # required
  separator = "[whitespace]" # optional, default

  # Types
  types.status = "int" # example
  types.duration = "float" # example
  types.success = "bool" # example
  types.timestamp_iso8601 = "timestamp|%F" # example
  types.timestamp_custom = "timestamp|%a %b %e %T %Y" # example
  types.parent.child = "int" # example

5 items

commonrequired

• commonoptionalbool

  drop_field

  If true the field will be dropped after parsing.

  • Default: true
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• commonoptionalstring

  field

  The field to apply the split on.

  • Default: "message"
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• commonrequired[string]

  field_names

  The field names assigned to the resulting tokens, in order.

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• commonoptionalstring

  separator

  The separator to split the field on. If no separator is given, it will split on all whitespace. 'Whitespace' is defined according to the terms of the Unicode Derived Core Property White_Space.

  • Default: "[whitespace]"
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• commonoptionaltable

  types

  Key/value pairs representing mapped log field names and types. This is used to coerce log fields into their proper types.

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

  processing_errors_total

  The total number of processing errors encountered 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.

  • error_type - The type of the error

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

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

• 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.

Examples

Given the following Vector event:

{
  "log": {
    "message": "5.86.210.12,zieme4647,19/06/2019:17:20:49 -0400,GET /embrace/supply-chains/dynamic/vertical,201,20574"
  }
}

And the following configuration:

[transforms.split]
type = "split"
field = "message"
separator = ","
field_names = ["remote_addr", "user_id", "timestamp", "message", "status", "bytes"]
types.status = "int"
types.bytes = "int"

The following Vector log event will be output:

{
  "remote_addr": "5.86.210.12",
  "user_id": "zieme4647",
  "timestamp": "19/06/2019:17:20:49 -0400",
  "message": "GET /embrace/supply-chains/dynamic/vertical",
  "status": 201,
  "bytes": 20574
}

How It Works