Stackdriver Logging Logstash Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash.

It is fully free and fully open source. The license is MIT, meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way.

Summary

This plugin sends events to Stackdriver Logging. Events are sent in batches as they are received.

Usage

This is an example of Logstash config for this plugin:

output {
    stackdriver_logging {
        project_id => "folkloric-guru-278"    (optional) <1>
        key_file => "/path/to/key_file.json"  (optional) <2>
        log_name => ""                        (required) <3>
        severity_field => "severity"          (optional)
        timestamp_field => "@timestamp"       (optional)
        default_severity => "default"         (optional)
        strip_at_fields => false              (optional)
        strip_fields => []                    (optional)
    }
}

There are some points to keep in mind when providing configuration:

  1. When running on Google Compute Engine and no project_id is provided, the project_id paramater will be automatically retrieved from the metadata server.

  2. If no key is provided, defaults to using Application Default Credentials.

  3. The log name can be interpolated with event fields, to extract the log name from a message (ie: log_name => "%{[log_name]}").

Considerations

There is a cost to storing log data in Stackdriver Logging. See the pricing guide for more information on costs involved.

All logs are stored under the global resource.