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Telegraf plugin for transforming metrics using Filepath
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https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.36.1/plugins/processors/filepath/README.md, Filepath Plugin Source

Filepath Processor Plugin

This plugin allows transforming a path, using e.g. basename to extract the last path element, for tag and field values. Values can be modified in place or stored in another key.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.15.0 Tags: transformation OS support: all

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Performs file path manipulations on tags and fields
[[processors.filepath]]
  ## Treat the tag value as a path and convert it to its last element, storing the result in a new tag
  # [[processors.filepath.basename]]
  #   tag = "path"
  #   dest = "basepath"

  ## Treat the field value as a path and keep all but the last element of path, typically the path's directory
  # [[processors.filepath.dirname]]
  #   field = "path"

  ## Treat the tag value as a path, converting it to its the last element without its suffix
  # [[processors.filepath.stem]]
  #   tag = "path"

  ## Treat the tag value as a path, converting it to the shortest path name equivalent
  ## to path by purely lexical processing
  # [[processors.filepath.clean]]
  #   tag = "path"

  ## Treat the tag value as a path, converting it to a relative path that is lexically
  ## equivalent to the source path when joined to 'base_path'
  # [[processors.filepath.rel]]
  #   tag = "path"
  #   base_path = "/var/log"

  ## Treat the tag value as a path, replacing each separator character in path with a '/' character. Has only
  ## effect on Windows
  # [[processors.filepath.toslash]]
  #   tag = "path"

Considerations

Processing order

This plugin processes the specified functions in the order they appear in the configuration. One exceptition is the stem section which is applied first.

If you plan to apply multiple transformations to the same tag/field, bear in mind the processing order stated above.

Clean Automatic Invocation

Even though clean is provided a standalone function, it is also invoked when using the rel and dirname functions, so there is no need to use it along with them.

That is:

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.dir]]
    tag = "path"
  [[processors.filepath.clean]]
    tag = "path"

Is equivalent to:

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.dir]]
    tag = "path"

ToSlash Platform-specific Behavior

The effects of this function are only noticeable on Windows platforms, because of the underlying golang implementation.

Examples

Basename

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.basename]]
    tag = "path"
- my_metric,path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000
+ my_metric,path="ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000

Dirname

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.dirname]]
    field = "path"
    dest = "folder"
- my_metric path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log",duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000
+ my_metric path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log",folder="/var/log/batch",duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000

Stem

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.stem]]
    tag = "path"
- my_metric,path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000
+ my_metric,path="ajob" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000

Clean

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.clean]]
    tag = "path"
- my_metric,path="/var/log/dummy/../batch//ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000
+ my_metric,path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000

Rel

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.rel]]
    tag = "path"
    base_path = "/var/log"
- my_metric,path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000
+ my_metric,path="batch/ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000

ToSlash

[[processors.filepath]]
  [[processors.filepath.rel]]
    tag = "path"
- my_metric,path="\var\log\batch\ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000
+ my_metric,path="/var/log/batch/ajob.log" duration_seconds=134 1587920425000000000

Processing paths from tail plugin

This plugin can be used together with the tail input plugin

For this purpose, we will use the tail input plugin, the grok parser plugin and the filepath processor.

# Performs file path manipulations on tags and fields
[[inputs.tail]]
  files = ["/var/log/myjobs/**.log"]
  data_format = "grok"
  grok_patterns = ['%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp:ts-"2006-01-02 15:04:05"} total time execution: %{NUMBER:duration_seconds:int}']
  name_override = "myjobs"

[[processors.filepath]]
   [[processors.filepath.stem]]
     tag = "path"
     dest = "stempath"

The resulting output for a job taking 70 seconds for the mentioned log file would look like:

myjobs_duration_seconds,host="my-host",path="/var/log/myjobs/mysql_backup.log",stempath="mysql_backup" 70 1587920425000000000