Observe

Observe is a cloud-native monitoring and analytics platform that provides visibility into the performance and behavior of modern distributed systems. With Observe, you can collect, store, and analyze telemetry data from a variety of sources, including logs, metrics, and traces, and gain insights into system behavior and performance. The Observe Destination Plugin in Calyptia Core allows you to easily integrate your telemetry data with the Observe platform, allowing you to transmit your data to Observe for further processing and analysis. With the Observe Destination Plugin, you can configure your Calyptia Core pipeline to send your data to Observe via HTTPS, allowing you to control the format and structure of your data.

Configuration Parameters

The following are configuration Parameters for Observe Destination Plugin.

KeyDescription

Observe Customer Id

IP address or hostname of Observes data collection endpoint. $(OBSERVE_CUSTOMER_ID) is your Customer ID

Headers

Add a HTTP header key/value pair. Multiple headers can be set.

The following are Advanced configuration Parameters for Observe Destination Plugin.

KeyDescription

URI

The default URI used for the Observe Service

Port

The port used to communicate with the Observe service, 443 is for TLS

Compress

Set payload compression mechanism.

HTTP Proxy

Specify an HTTP Proxy. The expected format of this value is http://host:port.

Format

Specify the data format to be used in the HTTP request body, by default it uses json_lines. Other supported formats are json and json_stream.

JSON Date Format

Specify the format of the date, supported formats: double, iso8601 (e.g: 2018-05-30T09:39:52.000681Z), java_sql_timestamp (e.g: 2018-05-30 09:39:52.000681, useful for AWS Athena), and epoch.

JSON Date Key

Specify the name of the date field in output

Body Key

Specify the key which contains the body

Header Tag

Set a HTTP header which value is the tag of the record

Header Key

Specify the key which contains the headers

The following are Security and TLS configuration Parameters for Observe Destination Plugin.

KeyDescription

TLS

Enable or Disable TLS/SSL support

TLS Certificate Validation

Turn TLS/SSL certificate validation on / off, TLS must be on for this setting to be enabled.

TLS Debug Level

Set TLS debug verbosity level. It accepts the following values: 0 (No debug), 1 (Error), 2 (State change), 3 (Informational), and 4 Verbose

CA Certificate File Path

Absolute path to CA certificate file

Certificate File Path

Absolute path to Certificate file

Private key File Path

Absolute path to private Key file

Private Key Path Password

Optional password for tls.key_file file

TLS SNI Hostname Extension

Hostname to be used for TLS SNI Extension

The following are Advanced Networking configuration Parameters for Observe Destination Plugin.

KeyDescription

DNS Mode

Select the primary DNS connection type (TCP or UDP)

DNS Resolver

Select the primary DNS connection type (TCP or UDP)

Prefer IPv4

Prioritize IPv4 DNS results when trying to establish a connection

Keepalive

Enable or disable Keepalive support

Keepalive Idle Timeout

Set maximum time allowed for an idle Keepalive connection

Max Connect Timeout

Set maximum time allowed to establish a connection, this time includes the TLS handshake

Max Connect Timeout Log Error

On connection timeout, specify if it should log an error. When disabled, the timeout is logged as a debug message

Max Keepalive Recycle

Set maximum number of times a keepalive connection can be used before it is retired.

Source Address

Specify network address to bind for data traffic

The following are Basic Authentication configuration Parameters for Observe Destination Plugin.

KeyDescription

HTTP Username

Basic Auth Username

HTTP Password

Basic Auth Password. Requires HTTP_User to be set

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