Pre-process data with Agents

The agent can pre-process the records parsed from monitored files before sending them to your Firehose stream. You can enable this feature by adding the dataProcessingOptions configuration setting to your file flow. One or more processing options can be added, and they are performed in the specified order.

The agent supports the following processing options. Because the agent is open source, you can further develop and extend its processing options. You can download the agent from Kinesis Agent.

Processing Options

SINGLELINE

Converts a multi-line record to a single-line record by removing newline characters, leading spaces, and trailing spaces.

{
    "optionName": "SINGLELINE"
}

CSVTOJSON

Converts a record from delimiter-separated format to JSON format.

{
    "optionName": "CSVTOJSON",
    "customFieldNames": [ "field1", "field2", ... ],
    "delimiter": "yourdelimiter"
}

customFieldNames

[Required] The field names used as keys in each JSON key value pair. For example, if you specify ["f1", "f2"], the record "v1, v2" is converted to {"f1":"v1","f2":"v2"}.

delimiter

The string used as the delimiter in the record. The default is a comma (,).

LOGTOJSON

Converts a record from a log format to JSON format. The supported log formats are Apache Common Log, Apache Combined Log, Apache Error Log, and RFC3164 Syslog.

{
    "optionName": "LOGTOJSON",
    "logFormat": "logformat",
    "matchPattern": "yourregexpattern",
    "customFieldNames": [ "field1", "field2", … ]
}

logFormat

[Required] The log entry format. The following are possible values:

• COMMONAPACHELOG — The Apache Common Log format. Each log entry has the following pattern by default: "%{host} %{ident} %{authuser} [%{datetime}] \"%{request}\" %{response} %{bytes}".

• COMBINEDAPACHELOG — The Apache Combined Log format. Each log entry has the following pattern by default: "%{host} %{ident} %{authuser} [%{datetime}] \"%{request}\" %{response} %{bytes} %{referrer} %{agent}".

• APACHEERRORLOG — The Apache Error Log format. Each log entry has the following pattern by default: "[%{timestamp}] [%{module}:%{severity}] [pid %{processid}:tid %{threadid}] [client: %{client}] %{message}".

• SYSLOG — The RFC3164 Syslog format. Each log entry has the following pattern by default: "%{timestamp} %{hostname} %{program}[%{processid}]: %{message}".

matchPattern

Overrides the default pattern for the specified log format. Use this setting to extract values from log entries if they use a custom format. If you specify matchPattern, you must also specify customFieldNames.

customFieldNames

The custom field names used as keys in each JSON key value pair. You can use this setting to define field names for values extracted from matchPattern, or override the default field names of predefined log formats.

Example : LOGTOJSON Configuration

Here is one example of a LOGTOJSON configuration for an Apache Common Log entry converted to JSON format:

{
    "optionName": "LOGTOJSON",
    "logFormat": "COMMONAPACHELOG"
}

Before conversion:

64.242.88.10 - - [07/Mar/2004:16:10:02 -0800] "GET /mailman/listinfo/hsdivision HTTP/1.1" 200 6291

After conversion:

{"host":"64.242.88.10","ident":null,"authuser":null,"datetime":"07/Mar/2004:16:10:02 -0800","request":"GET /mailman/listinfo/hsdivision HTTP/1.1","response":"200","bytes":"6291"}

Example : LOGTOJSON Configuration With Custom Fields

Here is another example LOGTOJSON configuration:

{
    "optionName": "LOGTOJSON",
    "logFormat": "COMMONAPACHELOG",
    "customFieldNames": ["f1", "f2", "f3", "f4", "f5", "f6", "f7"]
}

With this configuration setting, the same Apache Common Log entry from the previous example is converted to JSON format as follows:

{"f1":"64.242.88.10","f2":null,"f3":null,"f4":"07/Mar/2004:16:10:02 -0800","f5":"GET /mailman/listinfo/hsdivision HTTP/1.1","f6":"200","f7":"6291"}

Example : Convert Apache Common Log Entry

The following flow configuration converts an Apache Common Log entry to a single-line record in JSON format:

{ 
    "flows": [
        {
            "filePattern": "/tmp/app.log*", 
            "deliveryStream": "my-delivery-stream",
            "dataProcessingOptions": [
                {
                    "optionName": "LOGTOJSON",
                    "logFormat": "COMMONAPACHELOG"
                }
            ]
        }
    ] 
}

Example : Convert Multi-Line Records

The following flow configuration parses multi-line records whose first line starts with "[SEQUENCE=". Each record is first converted to a single-line record. Then, values are extracted from the record based on a tab delimiter. Extracted values are mapped to specified customFieldNames values to form a single-line record in JSON format.

{ 
    "flows": [
        {
            "filePattern": "/tmp/app.log*", 
            "deliveryStream": "my-delivery-stream",
            "multiLineStartPattern": "\\[SEQUENCE=",
            "dataProcessingOptions": [
                {
                    "optionName": "SINGLELINE"
                },
                {
                    "optionName": "CSVTOJSON",
                    "customFieldNames": [ "field1", "field2", "field3" ],
                    "delimiter": "\\t"
                }
            ]
        }
    ] 
}

Example : LOGTOJSON Configuration with Match Pattern

Here is one example of a LOGTOJSON configuration for an Apache Common Log entry converted to JSON format, with the last field (bytes) omitted:

{
    "optionName": "LOGTOJSON",
    "logFormat": "COMMONAPACHELOG",
    "matchPattern": "^([\\d.]+) (\\S+) (\\S+) \\[([\\w:/]+\\s[+\\-]\\d{4})\\] \"(.+?)\" (\\d{3})",
    "customFieldNames": ["host", "ident", "authuser", "datetime", "request", "response"]
}

Before conversion:

123.45.67.89 - - [27/Oct/2000:09:27:09 -0400] "GET /java/javaResources.html HTTP/1.0" 200

After conversion:

{"host":"123.45.67.89","ident":null,"authuser":null,"datetime":"27/Oct/2000:09:27:09 -0400","request":"GET /java/javaResources.html HTTP/1.0","response":"200"}