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elasticsearch

Publishes messages into an Elasticsearch index. If the index does not exist then it is created with a dynamic mapping.

# Common config fields, showing default values
output:
label: ""
elasticsearch:
urls: [] # No default (required)
index: "" # No default (required)
id: ${!count("elastic_ids")}-${!timestamp_unix()}
type: ""
max_in_flight: 64
batching:
count: 0
byte_size: 0
period: ""
check: ""

Both the id and index fields can be dynamically set using function interpolations described here. When sending batched messages these interpolations are performed per message part.

AWS

It's possible to enable AWS connectivity with this output using the aws fields. However, you may need to set sniff and healthcheck to false for connections to succeed.

Performance

This output benefits from sending multiple messages in flight in parallel for improved performance. You can tune the max number of in flight messages (or message batches) with the field max_in_flight.

This output benefits from sending messages as a batch for improved performance. Batches can be formed at both the input and output level. You can find out more in this doc.

Fields

urls

A list of URLs to connect to. If an item of the list contains commas it will be expanded into multiple URLs.

Type: array

# Examples

urls:
- http://localhost:9200

index

The index to place messages. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string

action

The action to take on the document. This field must resolve to one of the following action types: create, index, update, upsert or delete. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Default: "index"

pipeline

An optional pipeline id to preprocess incoming documents. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Default: ""

id

The ID for indexed messages. Interpolation should be used in order to create a unique ID for each message. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Default: "${!count(\"elastic_ids\")}-${!timestamp_unix()}"

type

The document mapping type. This field is required for versions of elasticsearch earlier than 6.0.0, but are invalid for versions 7.0.0 or later. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Default: ""

routing

The routing key to use for the document. This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string
Default: ""

sniff

Prompts Benthos to sniff for brokers to connect to when establishing a connection.

Type: bool
Default: true

healthcheck

Whether to enable healthchecks.

Type: bool
Default: true

timeout

The maximum time to wait before abandoning a request (and trying again).

Type: string
Default: "5s"

tls

Custom TLS settings can be used to override system defaults.

Type: object

tls.enabled

Whether custom TLS settings are enabled.

Type: bool
Default: false

tls.skip_cert_verify

Whether to skip server side certificate verification.

Type: bool
Default: false

tls.enable_renegotiation

Whether to allow the remote server to repeatedly request renegotiation. Enable this option if you're seeing the error message local error: tls: no renegotiation.

Type: bool
Default: false
Requires version 3.45.0 or newer

tls.root_cas

An optional root certificate authority to use. This is a string, representing a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, to possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

Secret

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn't be added to a config directly, read our secrets page for more info.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

root_cas: |-
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

tls.root_cas_file

An optional path of a root certificate authority file to use. This is a file, often with a .pem extension, containing a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, to possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

root_cas_file: ./root_cas.pem

tls.client_certs

A list of client certificates to use. For each certificate either the fields cert and key, or cert_file and key_file should be specified, but not both.

Type: array
Default: []

# Examples

client_certs:
- cert: foo
key: bar

client_certs:
- cert_file: ./example.pem
key_file: ./example.key

tls.client_certs[].cert

A plain text certificate to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].key

A plain text certificate key to use.

Secret

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn't be added to a config directly, read our secrets page for more info.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].cert_file

The path of a certificate to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].key_file

The path of a certificate key to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].password

A plain text password for when the private key is password encrypted in PKCS#1 or PKCS#8 format. The obsolete pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC algorithm is not supported for the PKCS#8 format. Warning: Since it does not authenticate the ciphertext, it is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext.

Secret

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn't be added to a config directly, read our secrets page for more info.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

password: foo

password: ${KEY_PASSWORD}

max_in_flight

The maximum number of messages to have in flight at a given time. Increase this to improve throughput.

Type: int
Default: 64

max_retries

The maximum number of retries before giving up on the request. If set to zero there is no discrete limit.

Type: int
Default: 0

backoff

Control time intervals between retry attempts.

Type: object

backoff.initial_interval

The initial period to wait between retry attempts.

Type: string
Default: "1s"

backoff.max_interval

The maximum period to wait between retry attempts.

Type: string
Default: "5s"

backoff.max_elapsed_time

The maximum period to wait before retry attempts are abandoned. If zero then no limit is used.

Type: string
Default: "30s"

basic_auth

Allows you to specify basic authentication.

Type: object

basic_auth.enabled

Whether to use basic authentication in requests.

Type: bool
Default: false

basic_auth.username

A username to authenticate as.

Type: string
Default: ""

basic_auth.password

A password to authenticate with.

Secret

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn't be added to a config directly, read our secrets page for more info.

Type: string
Default: ""

batching

Allows you to configure a batching policy.

Type: object

# Examples

batching:
byte_size: 5000
count: 0
period: 1s

batching:
count: 10
period: 1s

batching:
check: this.contains("END BATCH")
count: 0
period: 1m

batching.count

A number of messages at which the batch should be flushed. If 0 disables count based batching.

Type: int
Default: 0

batching.byte_size

An amount of bytes at which the batch should be flushed. If 0 disables size based batching.

Type: int
Default: 0

batching.period

A period in which an incomplete batch should be flushed regardless of its size.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

period: 1s

period: 1m

period: 500ms

batching.check

A Bloblang query that should return a boolean value indicating whether a message should end a batch.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

check: this.type == "end_of_transaction"

batching.processors

A list of processors to apply to a batch as it is flushed. This allows you to aggregate and archive the batch however you see fit. Please note that all resulting messages are flushed as a single batch, therefore splitting the batch into smaller batches using these processors is a no-op.

Type: array

# Examples

processors:
- archive:
format: concatenate

processors:
- archive:
format: lines

processors:
- archive:
format: json_array

aws

Enables and customises connectivity to Amazon Elastic Service.

Type: object

aws.enabled

Whether to connect to Amazon Elastic Service.

Type: bool
Default: false

aws.region

The AWS region to target.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.endpoint

Allows you to specify a custom endpoint for the AWS API.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.credentials

Optional manual configuration of AWS credentials to use. More information can be found in this document.

Type: object

aws.credentials.profile

A profile from ~/.aws/credentials to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.credentials.id

The ID of credentials to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.credentials.secret

The secret for the credentials being used.

Secret

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn't be added to a config directly, read our secrets page for more info.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.credentials.token

The token for the credentials being used, required when using short term credentials.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.credentials.from_ec2_role

Use the credentials of a host EC2 machine configured to assume an IAM role associated with the instance.

Type: bool
Default: false
Requires version 4.2.0 or newer

aws.credentials.role

A role ARN to assume.

Type: string
Default: ""

aws.credentials.role_external_id

An external ID to provide when assuming a role.

Type: string
Default: ""

gzip_compression

Enable gzip compression on the request side.

Type: bool
Default: false