Concat Filter 🔗︎

Overview 🔗︎

Fluentd Filter plugin to concatenate multiline log separated in multiple events.

Configuration 🔗︎

Concat 🔗︎

Variable Name Type Required Default Description
key string No - Specify field name in the record to parse. If you leave empty the Container Runtime default will be used.
separator string No “\n” The separator of lines.
n_lines int No - The number of lines. This is exclusive with multiline_start_regex.
multiline_start_regexp string No - The regexp to match beginning of multiline. This is exclusive with n_lines.
multiline_end_regexp string No - The regexp to match ending of multiline. This is exclusive with n_lines.
continuous_line_regexp string No - The regexp to match continuous lines. This is exclusive with n_lines.
stream_identity_key string No - The key to determine which stream an event belongs to.
flush_interval int No - The number of seconds after which the last received event log will be flushed. If specified 0, wait for next line forever.
timeout_label string No - The label name to handle events caused by timeout.
use_first_timestamp bool No False Use timestamp of first record when buffer is flushed.
partial_key string No - The field name that is the reference to concatenate records
partial_value string No - The value stored in the field specified by partial_key that represent partial log
keep_partial_key bool No False If true, keep partial_key in concatenated records
use_partial_metadata string No - Use partial metadata to concatenate multiple records
keep_partial_metadata string No - If true, keep partial metadata

Example Concat filter configurations 🔗︎

apiVersion: logging.banzaicloud.io/v1beta1
kind: Flow
metadata:
 name: demo-flow
spec:
 filters:
   - concat:
       partial_key: "partial_message"
       separator: ""
       n_lines: 10
 selectors: {}
 localOutputRefs:
   - demo-output

Fluentd Config Result 🔗︎

<filter **>
 @type concat
 @id test_concat
 key message
 n_lines 10
 partial_key partial_message
</filter>