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loki.source.awsfirehose

loki.source.awsfirehose receives log entries over HTTP from Amazon Data Firehose and forwards them to other loki.* components.

The HTTP API exposed is compatible with the Data Firehose HTTP Delivery API. Since the API model that Data Firehose uses to deliver data over HTTP is generic enough, the same component can be used to receive data from multiple origins:

• Amazon CloudWatch logs
• Amazon CloudWatch events
• Custom data through DirectPUT requests

The component uses a heuristic to try to decode as much information as possible from each log record, and it falls back to writing the raw records to Loki. The decoding process goes as follows:

• Data Firehose sends batched requests
• Each record is treated individually
• For each record received in each request:
  • If the record comes from a CloudWatch logs subscription filter, it’s decoded and each logging event is written to Loki
  • All other records are written raw to Loki

The component exposes some internal labels, available for relabeling. The following tables describes internal labels available in records coming from any source.

If the source of the Data Firehose record is CloudWatch logs, the request is further decoded and enriched with even more labels, exposed as follows:

Refer to the Examples for a full example configuration showing how to enrich each log entry with these labels.

Usage

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loki.source.awsfirehose "<LABEL>" {
    http {
        listen_address = "<LISTEN_ADDRESS>"
        listen_port = "<PORT>"
    }
    forward_to = RECEIVER_LIST
}

The component starts an HTTP server on the configured port and address with the following endpoints:

• /awsfirehose/api/v1/push - accepting POST requests compatible with Data Firehose HTTP Specifications.

You can use the X-Amz-Firehose-Common-Attributes header to set extra static labels. You can configure the header in the Parameters section of the Data Firehose delivery stream configuration. Label names must be prefixed with lbl_. The prefix is removed before the label is stored in the log entry. Label names and label values must be compatible with the Prometheus data model specification.

Example of the valid X-Amz-Firehose-Common-Attributes value with two custom labels:

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{
  "commonAttributes": {
    "lbl_label1": "value1",
    "lbl_label2": "value2"
  }
}

Arguments

You can use the following arguments with loki.source.awsfirehose:

The relabel_rules field can make use of the rules export value from a loki.relabel component to apply one or more relabeling rules to log entries before they’re forwarded to the list of receivers in forward_to.

Blocks

You can use the following blocks with loki.source.awsfirehose:

grpc

http

Exported fields

loki.source.awsfirehose doesn’t export any fields.

Component health

loki.source.awsfirehose is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration.

Debug metrics

The following are some of the metrics that are exposed when this component is used.

• loki_source_awsfirehose_batch_size (histogram): Size (in units) of the number of records received per request.
• loki_source_awsfirehose_invalid_static_labels_errors (counter): Count number of errors while processing Data Firehose static labels.
• loki_source_awsfirehose_record_errors (counter): Count of errors while decoding an individual record.
• loki_source_awsfirehose_records_received (counter): Count of records received.
• loki_source_awsfirehose_request_errors (counter): Count of errors while receiving a request.

Example

This example starts an HTTP server on 0.0.0.0 address and port 9999. The server receives log entries and forwards them to a loki.write component. The loki.write component sends the logs to the specified Loki instance using basic auth credentials provided.

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loki.write "local" {
    endpoint {
        url = "http://loki:3100/api/v1/push"
        basic_auth {
            username = "<USERNAME>"
            password_file = "<PASSWORD_FILE>"
        }
    }
}

loki.source.awsfirehose "loki_fh_receiver" {
    http {
        listen_address = "0.0.0.0"
        listen_port = 9999
    }
    forward_to = [
        loki.write.local.receiver,
    ]
}

Replace the following:

• <USERNAME>: Your username.
• <PASSWORD_FILE>: Your password file.

As another example, if you are receiving records that originated from a CloudWatch logs subscription, you can enrich each received entry by relabeling internal labels. The following configuration builds upon the one above but keeps the origin log stream and group as log_stream and log_group, respectively.

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loki.write "local" {
    endpoint {
        url = "http://loki:3100/api/v1/push"
        basic_auth {
            username = "<USERNAME>"
            password_file = "<PASSWORD_FILE>"
        }
    }
}

loki.source.awsfirehose "loki_fh_receiver" {
    http {
        listen_address = "0.0.0.0"
        listen_port = 9999
    }
    forward_to = [
        loki.write.local.receiver,
    ]
    relabel_rules = loki.relabel.logging_origin.rules
}

loki.relabel "logging_origin" {
  rule {
    action = "replace"
    source_labels = ["__aws_cw_log_group"]
    target_label = "log_group"
  }
  rule {
    action = "replace"
    source_labels = ["__aws_cw_log_stream"]
    target_label = "log_stream"
  }
  forward_to = []
}

Replace the following:

• <USERNAME>: Your username.
• <PASSWORD_FILE>: Your password file.

Compatible components

loki.source.awsfirehose can accept arguments from the following components:

• Components that export Loki LogsReceiver