Expect

Made for testing: make sure that your records contain the expected key and values

The expect filter plugin allows you to validate that records match certain criteria in their structure, like validating that a key exists or it has a specific value.

The following page just describes the configuration properties available, for a detailed explanation of its usage and use cases, please refer the following page:

Configuration Parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

PropertyDescription

key_exists

Check if a key with a given name exists in the record.

key_not_exists

Check if a key does not exist in the record.

key_val_is_null

check that the value of the key is NULL.

key_val_is_not_null

check that the value of the key is NOT NULL.

key_val_eq

check that the value of the key equals the given value in the configuration.

action

action to take when a rule does not match. The available options are warn , exit or "result_key". On warn, a warning message is sent to the logging layer when a mismatch of the rules above is found; using exit makes Calyptia Fluent Bit abort with status code 255; result_key is to add a matching result to each record.

result_key

specify a key name of matching result. This key is to be used only when 'action' is 'result_key'.

Getting Started

As mentioned on top, refer to the following page for specific details of usage of this filter:

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