Data Prepper is an extendable, configurable, and scalable solution for log ingestion into OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Currently, Data Prepper is focused on receiving logs from FluentBit via the Http Source, and processing those logs with a Grok Processor before ingesting them into OpenSearch through the OpenSearch sink.
Here is all of the components for log analytics with FluentBit, Data Prepper, and OpenSearch:
In your application environment you will have to run FluentBit. FluentBit can be containerized through Kubernetes, Docker, or Amazon ECS. It can also be run as an agent on EC2. You should configure the FluentBit http output plugin to export log data to Data Prepper. You will then have to deploy Data Prepper as an intermediate component and configure it to send the enriched log data to your OpenSearch cluster or Amazon OpenSearch Service domain. From there, you can use OpenSearch Dashboards to perform more intensive visualization and analysis.
Log analytic pipelines in Data Prepper are extremely customizable. A simple pipeline is shown below.
The Http Source accepts log data from FluentBit. More specifically, this source accepts log data in a JSON array format. This source supports industry-standard encryption in the form of TLS/HTTPS and HTTP basic authentication.
The Data Prepper 1.2 release will come with a Grok Processor. The Grok Processor can be an invaluable tool to structure and extract important fields from your logs in order to make them more queryable.
The Grok Processor comes with a wide variety of default patterns that match against common log formats like apcahe logs or syslogs, but can easily accept any custom patterns that cater to your specific log format.
There are a lot of complex Grok features that will not be discussed here, so please read the documentation if you are interested.
We have a generic sink that writes the data to OpenSearch as the destination. The opensearch sink has configuration options related to an OpenSearch cluster like endpoint, SSL/Username, index name, index template, index state management, etc.
Example pipeline.yaml with SSL and Basic Authentication enabled for the http-source:
log-pipeline:
source:
http:
ssl: true
ssl_certificate_file: "/full/path/to/certfile.crt"
ssl_key_file: "/full/path/to/keyfile.key"
# The default port that will listen for incoming logs
port: 2021
authentication:
http_basic:
username: "myuser"
password: "mys3cret"
processor:
- grok:
match:
# This will match logs with a "log" key against the COMMONAPACHELOG pattern (ex: { "log": "actual apache log..." } )
# You should change this to match what your logs look like. See the grok documenation to get started.
log: [ "%{COMMONAPACHELOG}" ]
sink:
- opensearch:
hosts: [ "https://localhost:9200" ]
# Change to your credentials
username: "admin"
password: "admin"
# Add a certificate file if you are accessing an OpenSearch cluster with a self-signed certificate
#cert: /path/to/cert
# If you are connecting to an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain without
# Fine-Grained Access Control, enable these settings. Comment out the
# username and password above.
#aws_sigv4: true
#aws_region: us-east-1
# Since we are grok matching for apache logs, it makes sense to send them to an OpenSearch index named apache_logs.
# You should change this to correspond with how your OpenSearch indices are set up.
index: apache_logs
Example pipeline.yaml without SSL and Basic Authentication enabled for the http-source:
log-pipeline:
source:
http:
# Explicitly disable SSL
ssl: false
# Explicitly disable authentication
authentication:
unauthenticated:
# The default port that will listen for incoming logs
port: 2021
processor:
- grok:
match:
# This will match logs with a "log" key against the COMMONAPACHELOG pattern (ex: { "log": "actual apache log..." } )
# You should change this to match what your logs look like. See the grok documenation to get started.
log: [ "%{COMMONAPACHELOG}" ]
sink:
- opensearch:
hosts: [ "https://localhost:9200" ]
# Change to your credentials
username: "admin"
password: "<admin password>"
# Add a certificate file if you are accessing an OpenSearch cluster with a self-signed certificate
#cert: /path/to/cert
# If you are connecting to an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain without
# Fine-Grained Access Control, enable these settings. Comment out the
# username and password above.
#aws_sigv4: true
#aws_region: us-east-1
# Since we are grok matching for apache logs, it makes sense to send them to an OpenSearch index named apache_logs.
# You should change this to correspond with how your OpenSearch indices are set up.
index: apache_logsThis pipeline configuration is an example of apache log ingestion. Don't forget that you can easily configure the Grok Processor for your own custom logs.
You will need to modify the configuration above for your OpenSearch cluster.
The main changes you will need to make are:
hosts- Set to your hostsindex- Change this to the OpenSearch index you want to send logs tousername- Provide the OpenSearch usernamepassword- Provide your OpenSearch passwordaws_sigv4- If you use Amazon OpenSearch Service with AWS signing, set this to true. It will sign requests with the default AWS credentials provider.aws_region- If you use Amazon OpenSearch Service with AWS signing, set this value to your region.
You will have to run FluentBit in your service environment. You can find the installation guide of FluentBit here.
Please ensure that you can configure the FluentBit http output plugin to your Data Prepper Http Source. Below is an example fluent-bit.conf that tails a log file named test.log and forwards it to a locally running Data Prepper's http source, which runs
by default on port 2021. Note that you should adjust the file path, output Host and Port according to how and where you have FluentBit and Data Prepper running.
Example fluent-bit.conf without SSL and Basic Authentication enabled on the http source:
[INPUT]
name tail
refresh_interval 5
path test.log
read_from_head true
[OUTPUT]
Name http
Match *
Host localhost
Port 2021
URI /log/ingest
Format json
If your http source has SSL and Basic Authentication enabled, you will need to add the details
of http_User, http_Passwd, tls.crt_file, and tls.key_file to the fluent-bit.conf as shown below.
Example fluent-bit.conf with SSL and Basic Authentication enabled on the http source:
[INPUT]
name tail
refresh_interval 5
path test.log
read_from_head true
[OUTPUT]
Name http
Match *
Host localhost
http_User myuser
http_Passwd mys3cret
tls On
tls.crt_file /full/path/to/certfile.crt
tls.key_file /full/path/to/keyfile.key
Port 2021
URI /log/ingest
Format json
Follow the Log Ingestion Demo Guide to go through a specific example of Apache log ingestion from FluentBit -> Data Prepper -> OpenSearch running through Docker.
In the future, Data Prepper will contain additional sources and processors which will make more complex log analytic pipelines available. Check out our Roadmap to see what is coming.
If there is a specifc source, processor, or sink that you would like to include in your log analytic workflow, and it is not currently on the Roadmap, please bring it to our attention by making a Github issue. Additionally, if you are interested in contributing, see our Contribuing Guidelines as well as our Developer Guide and Plugin Development Guide.