strings

Strings Processor Plugin

The strings plugin maps certain go string functions onto measurement, tag, and field values. Values can be modified in place or stored in another key.

Implemented functions are:

• lowercase
• uppercase
• trim
• trim_left
• trim_right
• trim_prefix
• trim_suffix
• replace
• left
• base64decode

Please note that in this implementation these are processed in the order that they appear above.

Specify the measurement, tag, tag_key, field, or field_key that you want processed in each section and optionally a dest if you want the result stored in a new tag or field. You can specify lots of transformations on data with a single strings processor.

If you'd like to apply the change to every tag, tag_key, field, field_key, or measurement, use the value "*" for each respective field. Note that the dest field will be ignored if "*" is used.

If you'd like to apply multiple processings to the same tag_key or field_key, note the process order stated above. See Example 2 for an example.

Configuration:

[[processors.strings]]
  ## Convert a field value to lowercase and store in a new field
  # [[processors.strings.lowercase]]
  #   field = "uri_stem"
  #   dest = "uri_stem_normalised"

  ## Convert a tag value to uppercase
  # [[processors.strings.uppercase]]
  #   tag = "method"

  ## Trim leading and trailing whitespace using the default cutset
  # [[processors.strings.trim]]
  #   field = "message"

  ## Trim leading characters in cutset
  # [[processors.strings.trim_left]]
  #   field = "message"
  #   cutset = "\t"

  ## Trim trailing characters in cutset
  # [[processors.strings.trim_right]]
  #   field = "message"
  #   cutset = "\r\n"

  ## Trim the given prefix from the field
  # [[processors.strings.trim_prefix]]
  #   field = "my_value"
  #   prefix = "my_"

  ## Trim the given suffix from the field
  # [[processors.strings.trim_suffix]]
  #   field = "read_count"
  #   suffix = "_count"

  ## Replace all non-overlapping instances of old with new
  # [[processors.strings.replace]]
  #   measurement = "*"
  #   old = ":"
  #   new = "_"

  ## Trims strings based on width
  # [[processors.strings.left]]
  #   field = "message"
  #   width = 10

  ## Decode a base64 encoded utf-8 string
  # [[processors.strings.base64decode]]
  #   field = "message"

Trim, TrimLeft, TrimRight

The trim, trim_left, and trim_right functions take an optional parameter: cutset. This value is a string containing the characters to remove from the value.

TrimPrefix, TrimSuffix

The trim_prefix and trim_suffix functions remote the given prefix or suffix respectively from the string.

Replace

The replace function does a substring replacement across the entire string to allow for different conventions between various input and output plugins. Some example usages are eliminating disallowed characters in field names or replacing separators between different separators. Can also be used to eliminate unneeded chars that were in metrics. If the entire name would be deleted, it will refuse to perform the operation and keep the old name.

Example

Config

[[processors.strings]]
  [[processors.strings.lowercase]]
    tag = "uri_stem"

  [[processors.strings.trim_prefix]]
    tag = "uri_stem"
    prefix = "/api/"

  [[processors.strings.uppercase]]
    field = "cs-host"
    dest = "cs-host_normalised"

Input

iis_log,method=get,uri_stem=/API/HealthCheck cs-host="MIXEDCASE_host",http_version=1.1 1519652321000000000

Output

iis_log,method=get,uri_stem=healthcheck cs-host="MIXEDCASE_host",http_version=1.1,cs-host_normalised="MIXEDCASE_HOST" 1519652321000000000

Example 2

Config

[[processors.strings]]
  [[processors.strings.lowercase]]
    tag_key = "URI-Stem"

  [[processors.strings.replace]]
    tag_key = "uri-stem"
    old = "-"
    new = "_"

Input

iis_log,URI-Stem=/API/HealthCheck http_version=1.1 1519652321000000000

Output

iis_log,uri_stem=/API/HealthCheck http_version=1.1 1519652321000000000