Logstash Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash.

The source for this plugin can be found here on github

Author: Mike Baranski (mike.baranski@gmail.com). Contributions are welcome.

Copyright (c) 2014–2017 Mike Baranski http://www.mikeski.net

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

This plugin is useful if you want to easily query Logstash data on day of week, hour of day, or other parts of a date. See the usage below for details on the output of the plugin. The date parts that can be generated are:

• day
• wday
• mday
• yday
• month
• year
• hour
• min
• sec

To manually install the plugin, download the gem from https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-filter-dateparts and run:

bin/plugin install --no-verify logstash-filter-dateparts-1.0.0.gem

To see the most basic usage, you can run the following (on Linux):

echo "HI" | bin/logstash -e 'input { stdin {} } filter {dateparts { }} output { stdout { codec=> rubydebug}}'

You could also use the logstash generator:

bin/logstash -e 'input { generator { lines => ["HI"] count => 1 } } filter {dateparts { }} output { stdout { codec=> rubydebug}}'

Here is the sample output:

{
	"message" => "HI",
	"@version" => "1",
	"@timestamp" => "2015-11-20T12:24:40.217Z",
	"host" => "mike-VirtualBox",
	"day" => 20,
	"wday" => 5,
	"yday" => 324,
	"month" => 11,
	"year" => 2015,
	"hour" => 12,
	"min" => 24,
	"sec" => 40
}

This uses the default configuration, which generates the following fields from the @timestamp field of the event:

• day
• wday
• yday
• month
• year
• hour
• min
• sec

The generated fields are based on the date functions available in the Ruby time class. You can specify any valid function and it will be added to the event.

For example, this will add 2 fields, sec corresponding to time.sec() and hour corresponding to time.hour():

filter {
	   dateparts {
   	     "fields" => ["sec", "hour"]
   }
}

By default, the plugin will use the @timestamp field, but you can specify a different one:

filter {
	   dateparts {
   	     "time_field" => "some_other_field"
   }
}

2.1 provides the ability to calculate a duration (in seconds.milliseconds) based on 2 field.s The value of the duration is a float with millisecond precision.

The input values must both be time values, and you specify an output field for the result

filter {
     'fields' => %w(mday),
     'duration' => {
         'start_field' => 'tstart',
         'end_field' => 'tend',
         'result_field' => 'duration'
     }
 }

By default, the tag _dateparts_error is added on exception. You can specify different tag(s) like so:

filter {
	   dateparts {
   	     "error_tags" => ["bad_dates", "xyz"]
   }
}